New module: KItinerary

[Volker Krause]

On Thursday, 5 April 2018 08:43:22 CEST Sandro Knauß wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > with kpkpass sorted out, let's look at the second new module extracted
> > from
> > the messageview "semantic" plugin in kdepim-addons :)
> > 
> > KItinerary contains the travel/reservation data model, data extraction and
> > data augmentation code, for re-use in the corresponding mobile app.
> > Besides
> > extracting the code and turning it into a shared library, the following
> > things have been changed:
> > 
> > - the basic data types now are also usable conveniently from C++, not just
> > from QML/Grantlee, at the cost of a bit more boilerplate code.
> > - the extractor engine can now also process pkpass files, next to plain
> > text, html and pdf.
> > - we can now also parse IATA bar coded boarding pass (BCBP) data, ie. the
> > content of the barcodes on boarding passes.
> > 
> > If there's no objections I'd like to make this part of the next PIM
> > release
> > too, and port kdepim-addons to use it.
> 
> Please inform release-team, kde-devel and distribution list like we did for
> kpkpass. As your further plan is to release it as Frameworks, maybe others
> want start creating software with it.

Sure, that's all following once there is agreement here :) 

There is no immediate plan to move this to frameworks, as it depends on three 
other PIM libraries at the moment that would need to move first (kmime, 
kcalcore, kpkpass). It's a far future possibility though.

Regards,
Volker
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