URLUtil::canonicalPath

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Sun Jul 3 19:09:04 UTC 2005


On Saturday 02 July 2005 09:37 am, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  kdevelop/lib/urlutil.cpp has the method from the subject which
> according to the comments is the same as QDir::canonicalPath.
> Hereby I suggest the removal of it and changing all the code in SVN,
> including 3.4 branch because:
> 1) it is not needed
> 2) it is against the Qt licensing. Qt is under GPL, while urlutil is
> under LGPL and we are not allowed to relicense it.
>
> Andras

It would be better to just return QDir::canonicalPath IMHO since that wouldn't 
break binary compatibility. But since other kdevelop developers have shown 
that they don't care about BC, your idea sounds fine.

-- 
Matt
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