URLUtil::canonicalPath

[Matt Rogers]

On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:27 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> 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

That would be best from my POV. When we start porting to Qt4, we can remove a 
bunch of this kind of stuff.  :)

Thanks
-- 
Matt
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