kdelibs/interfaces/khexedit

[David Faure]

On Sunday 10 November 2013 04:32:12 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Input welcome.
> 
> Once upon a time those interfaces were invented to enable KPilot (yes, those
> times) to be able to use the hexedit widget I did then, without having
> these rather specific widget in kdelibs or having kdepim depend on kdeutils
> (where the lib was then living hidden away in a khexedit subdir, while not
> used by khexedit itself).
> 
> These days I know of no other user besides KDevelop as well (somewhere in
> the debugging area IIRC).
> But it has been proposed to use the Okteta libs directly there, as the
> Okteta libs are already used directly in another place in KDevelop (for the
> hex editing plugin). It just needs someone to do the coding.

Ah, interesting.

> So from my point of view, especially given the idea of KF5, I see no more
> need for interfaces/khexedit. Rather do I see the Okteta libs themselves
> (the core ones for simple widget things) one day being added to KF5, now
> that things are modular :)

Yep, makes sense.

I'll just delete interfaces/khexedit then, thanks for the input.

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