Framework Categories

[Kevin Ottens]

On Tuesday 03 February 2015 12:53:08 Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> Hey frameworks developers,
> 
> Albert wrote a couple weeks ago:
> > As far as i remember, functional means you can use it standalone, solution
> > means it needs a daemon and integraion means it needs more stuff (more
> > daemons?
> 
> Is this categorization correct? Has it been checked with a dependency
> analysis to see that each functional framework is usable standalone? I
> understood the tiers concept but never did get my head around the
> functional/integration/solution concept yet, but would like to.

https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Policies#Frameworks_have_a_Tier_and_a_Type

> At any
> rate, I think KNewStuff which I'm very familiar with doesn't seem to be
> usable standalone as the functional status it has implies. It depends on
> and uses KIO for all network downloads and uploads, which requires a daemon
> as far as I can tell (and is a solution) so should KNewStuff be changed to
> a solution also probably?

Sounds like it yes.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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