KDNSSD merge

[David Faure]

On Sunday 02 March 2014 15:52:43 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sunday 02 March 2014 11:39:15 David Faure wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 March 2014 10:27:08 Alex Merry wrote:
> > > On 01/03/14 09:55, David Faure wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 25 February 2014 20:37:28 Alex Merry wrote:
> > > >> I've had a look at the kdnssd repositoy, and it contains two related
> > > >> bits of code: the zeroconf ioslave and a kded/KDirWatch module to
> > > >> notify
> > > >> KIO about changes to available services.
> > > >> 
> > > >> These two obviously belong together; the question is where?  They can
> > > >> go
> > > >> in kdnssd-framework, making it depend on KIO, or they can go in KIO,
> > > >> making it (optionally) depend on KDNSSD.
> > > > 
> > > > I don't like the idea of adding yet another dependency to KIO.
> > > > 
> > > > How about we put the kioslave which depends on kio+kdnssd into some
> > > > tier4
> > > > framework? After all it's not API, it's just some integration plugin,
> > > > which is exactly what defines tier4.
> > > 
> > > Do we want a kioslaves framework (somewhat similar to the kimageplugins
> > > framework)?
> > 
> > I think that would make sense -- we have a whole bunch of kioslaves in
> > kde-runtime that we don't know where to put (lots of "??" in the
> > New_Runtime_Organization epic).
> > 
> > I don't think we want all of these into the kio framework, that would make
> > it depend on libsmbclient, libssh and all sorts of other libs.
> > 
> > Kevin, do you agree on a kioslaves.git repo, tier4?
> 
> Tier3

It's not API, it's a bunch of runtime things (like kfileaudiopreview). Hmm ok 
it's not about "integration with the workspace" though (like 
frameworkintegration). Depends which definition we use :)

> , but otherwise yes, I definitely agree with the move. We should make
> sure that during the build all the dependencies are treated optional, so
> that people getting it just for one ioslave don't have to pull plenty of
> dependencies.

Agreed.


-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5
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