Review Request 110943: Adds basic lzo support

[Ragnar Thomsen]

> On Jan. 15, 2016, 1:09 p.m., Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
> > Hi David. Sorry for the delay.
> > 
> > Are you still interested in working on LZO support?
> > Your patch looks promising, but should be ported to the KDE Frameworks 5.
> 
> David Hallas wrote:
>     Hi Elvis,
>     
>     yes certainly. Can you give me some pointers where to start with porting the code to Frameworks 5?
>     
>     Thanks!
> 
> Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
>     > Can you give me some pointers where to start with porting the code to Frameworks 5?
>     
>     Your best bet is looking at how the Ark plugins are currently implemented. In the Ark repository, start from the `plugins/cliplugin-example` folder and then look at some actual plugin. Basically you are supposed to:
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>     1. Update your `CMakeLists.txt` file, until you are able to run cmake without errors
>     2. Add the `K_PLUGIN_FACTORY` macro in your `cliplugin.cpp`
>     3. Port `cliplugin.cpp` to Qt5/KF5. Since there is not much code there, it shouldn't be too hard. For instance, you will have to replace `kDebug()` with `qCDebug(ARK)`, and so on. Please refer to the official porting guide: https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Porting_Notes
>     
>     If you have questions or problems, feel free to ask here or on IRC (in the #kde-utils channel).
>     
>     Good luck!
> 
> Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
>     I think it is better to enable support for lzop-compressed tars in the libarchive plugin than to add and maintain an additional cliplugin.
> 
> Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
>     > I think it is better to enable support for lzop-compressed tars in the libarchive plugin than to add and maintain an additional cliplugin.
>     
>     If that is possible, yes it would be better. David, what's the status of your patch?
> 
> David Hallas wrote:
>     I have attached the current patch, it is still work in progress, but it can be picked up and completed with a little dedicated effor. Unfortunately I have not had time to finish it yet :(

I have enabled support for tar.lzo archives in the libarchive plugin (commit 17df27dab76bad4ce5bf78e1a1240408d972ef88). This will be available in Ark 16.04. I think we can discard this RR?


- Ragnar


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On June 10, 2013, 9:22 p.m., David Hallas wrote:
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> (Updated June 10, 2013, 9:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Utils.
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> Bugs: 211669
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211669
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> Repository: ark
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> Description
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> This patch adds basic lzo support using lzop. I want to get some early feedback before completing the code
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> Diffs
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>   plugins/CMakeLists.txt 3619412 
>   plugins/clilzopplugin/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   plugins/clilzopplugin/cliplugin.h PRE-CREATION 
>   plugins/clilzopplugin/cliplugin.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   plugins/clilzopplugin/kerfuffle_clilzop.desktop.cmake PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/110943/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Hallas
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