Purpose as a KDE Framework

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 3:01:10 PM CET Aleix Pol wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I've been working on Purpose since some months now, with the intention
>> of becoming a framework some day. Some information about it can be
>> read here:
>> https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/libs/purpose/repository/revisio
>> ns/master/entry/README.md
>>
>> As it is right now it's a tier 2 framework (kcoreaddons and ki18n)
>> plus the plugins. Plugins raise the tier to 3 because of KIO which is
>> used by some plugins.
>
> do plugins have to be inside the framework? Otherwise an option might be to
> split out the plugins and move them to frameworkintegration?

That could work. I'm not too sure how awesome that would be though...

>
>>
>> As it is now, it's being used by: Kamoso, QuickShare plasmoid and
>> KDevelop for patch sharing. I'd like to see it used in other cases
>> than sharing as well as in other applications, but here's where we are
>> at the moment. I think it's something to build upon.
>
> having started using QuickShare with it a few days ago when I learned that it
> just needs pupose to be installed: all for it!

:D

Aleix