New Framework Review: KDAV

[Alexander Potashev]

вс, 10 нояб. 2019 г. в 15:44, David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
>
> On samedi 9 novembre 2019 21:14:46 CET Alexander Potashev wrote:
> > сб, 9 нояб. 2019 г. в 14:37, Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org>:
> > > during Akademy there was a request to promote KDAV from KDE PIM to
> > > Frameworks for use by Plasma Mobile. KDAV is a framework that implements
> > > the CalDav/ CardDav/GroupDav protocol on top of KIO's WebDav support. It
> > > would be classified as a functional tier 3 framework.
> >
> > Hi Volker,
> >
> > The name "KDAV" suggests that it might implement WebDAV. Do you think
> > if it should be renamed to something like "DAVExtensions" or let's say
> > "AnyDAV"?
>
> The name seems fine to me. The substring "DAV" appears just as much in WebDAV
> as it does in CalDav/CardDav/GroupDav. So there's no reason to infer "WebDAV"
> from "KDAV".
>
> "Extensions" sounds very optional, and "AnyDAV" looks like yet-another WebDAV-
> based protocol in itself.
>
> The issue you see is that someone looking for WebDAV support might end up
> thinking KDAV is the right thing to use? Well, maybe it should be, i.e. this
> would probably be the right place for some proper future WebDAV API compared
> to using kio_http with metadata directly....

OK. LGTM as well after your explanation.

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Alexander Potashev