URLUtil::canonicalPath

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Sun Jul 3 19:22:04 UTC 2005


On Sunday 03 July 2005 20:08, Matt Rogers wrote:
> 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.

I'm fine with returning QDir::canonincalPath as well and mark it 
deprecated.

Andras

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