Coding to interfaces & tools

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I've removed all references to KisView and KisDoc from our tools today, but 
that made me think... Clarence Dang once said he wanted to use Krita as the 
core library for kolourpaint -- and indeed, we should take care to prepare 
for a separation between something I will provisionally call "libkrita" and 
another thing, provisionally called "kritapart". The former should not depend 
on KOffice, and plugins and so on should not depend on the latter. That means 
that we should avoid, like the plague, referencing KisView or KisDoc and any 
other KOffice libs derived classes in our plugins, but use the 
KisCanvasSubject, KisCanvasObserver, KisUndoAdapter and similar interfaces 
instead. 

I'm not quite sure when & where to administer the cut and reorganize our 
source tree, but it will come, one day. Let's code to interfaces, not 
implementations -- it would make Patrick Julien very happy.
-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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