New framework: KCalCore

[Volker Krause]

With the 19.08 release approaching (and thus the deadline for incompatible 
changes if we go ahead with this plan), I'd like to raise this again for 
getting to a decision :)

Summary of what happened in the past weeks:
- the Person/Attendee slicing issue was fixed by making both independent types
- several "leaf" types were turned into implicitly shared value types rather 
than being used heap-allocated inside shared pointers
- the dependency on the Akonadi supertrait.h header file was removed
- the virtual_hook usage in the incidence de/serialization code was replaced 
by new virtual methods

Unless I missed something, the remaining unaddressed feedback is down to:
- Rename KCalCore to something else. I'm ok with executing the rename, but 
somebody needs to tell me the new name :)
- Alexander P's fundamental objections to the current KCalCore API

How do we proceed?

Thanks,
Volker

On Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:45:09 CEST Volker Krause wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to propose KCalCore for review to move from KDE PIM to KF5.
> 
> KCalCore is an implementation of the iCalendar standard based on libical,
> covering the data model, input/output and the rather complex recurrence
> algorithms defined in that standard. It's used outside of KDE PIM as well,
> e.g. by Zanshin or the Plasma Mobile calendar app.
> 
> KCalCore depends on Qt and libical only, making it a Tier 1 functional
> framework.
> 
> KCalCore used to be part of part of kdepimlibs in the KDE4 era, so it's well
> prepared for complying with the API and ABI guarantees.
> 
> I'd suggest the same timeline as proposed for KContacts [1]. During the PIM
> sprint we did a number of fixes and cleanups as part of the review for KF5
> that make 19.08 the earliest release after which we can switch as well, so
> we are looking at a switch in Sep/Oct this year.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Volker
> 
> [1]
> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2019-April/084057.html

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