Purpose as a KDE Framework

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2015, 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/revisi
>> ons/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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> I really like the idea, good job:), my reservation is still that I think it
> should try really hard to have plugins scripted whenever possible, as
> webservice tend to be very api instable and change quickly (so updates out of
> order on things like get hot new stuff would be possible) plus it becomes easy
> having contributions for them, like the comic applet.
>
> but i don't think scripted plugins can be added as an aftertought as the
> structure of the framework may be influenced by that (yeah, i know,
> dependencies, but my wet dream is to have those sharing scripts findable of
> ghns/kdelook and installable with kpackage)

I'll give scripted plugins some thought.

Aleix