[Kde-silk] Re: Share "Web services" code using KJob's

[Andrey Esin]

Hi.
I agree with Mehrdad.
I think, it will be interesting and we try to add this to next releases.


2011/1/9 Mehrdad Momeny <mehrdad.momeny at gmail.com>

> Hi,
> This could be great, and I like to participate.
> Start the project and show me/us some code samples to know how to code! :)
>
> ----- Original message -----
> > Hi there fellow developers.
> >
> > I'm sending this email because we are all working on applications or
> > libraries which have something in common: all of them are interacting in
> > some ways with "Web/Cloud/2.0/whatever" services.
> >
> > The idea is to share code in form of KJob's and make them our raw
> > material to build our plugins above them, that way everybody can
> > continue having they plugins (kipi's, choqok, kamoso, recorditnow) or
> > they integrations (KDevelop, Amarok) but we will be all sharing the same
> > code base.
> >
> > The project though should remain small and easy to maintain, having that
> > in mind this is what we thought:
> >
> > -The project should have containers such Silk::Twitpic::Upload (Upload
> > is the KJob)
> > -We should try to maintain retrocompatibility but we should not be hard
> > on that, anyway adding things like "Upload2" should be allowed.
> > -We should think of this project like a bag full of code, where the
> > developer chooses what code to use (rather than thinking of it like a
> > complex unified abstract thing).
> >
> > By doing this code organization, we can share code between applications
> > in an easy way, for example, if we had all KJob-ified right now, we
> > would be able to unify and use other's implementations:
> >
> > Job:                Current implementations:
> > Silk::Youtube::Upload···········(Kamoso, recorditnow)
> > Silk::Youtube::Download·········(Amarok)
> > Silk::Youtube::Search···········(Amarok)
> > Silk::Facebook::Upload··········(Kipi)
> > Silk::Flcker::Upload············(Kipi, Choqok)
> > Silk::Twitpic::Upload···········(Choqok)
> > Silk::Picasa::Upload ············(Kipi)
> >
> > Aleix and I are willing to start the project, by implementing
> > Youtube::Upload, Facebook::Upload and Twitpic::Upload (by porting choqok
> > uploaders to KJob), but before we start we want to know if you will
> > follow the lead.
> >
> > So, What do you think?
>
>
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