Framework Categories

Jeremy Whiting jpwhiting at kde.org
Wed Feb 4 16:33:00 UTC 2015


Ok, I've changed knewstuff to a "solution" type. Should all frameworks that
depend on kio be also changed to solution type ?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:54 PM, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:

> 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.
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