[Kmymoney-devel] Aqbanking plugin for the KDE4 version

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Martin Preuss <martin at aquamaniac.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already proposed a long time ago to take over the plugin into KMM's
> repository, so there is no problem from my side ;-)
Glad to hear that.

> However, I won't be able to work on the plugin myself in the next 5-6 months.
No problem, I think we can take care of porting the plugin since it
does not involve any functional change that would require Aqbanking
knowledge.


> On Freitag, 30. Oktober 2009, Cristian Oneţ wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As Alvaro said we feel we are getting closer to a KDE4 KMyMoney beta
>> release. As a KMyMoney user I think that the Aqbanking plugin
>> (KBanking) also should be available for this release. I would like to
>> know what everyone thinks about how can we make this happen as easy as
>> possible.
>>
>> Martin do you have time to work on porting the plugin to KDE4? In case
>> you don't I would be happy to help.
>> I think that the best approach for the KDE4 version would be to have
>> the KBanking plugin in the KMyMoney source tree. Here are my arguments
>> for this:
>> 1. it does not make much sense to keep a plugin in a separate package
>> if only one application can use it (it only makes things harder)
>> 2. the life of packagers and power users would be easier if they are
>> ridden of the burden to install another package for an extra feature
>> 3. I think that maintaining the plugin wouldn't be more difficult that
>> it is now maybe it would even become easier
>> 4. the plugin would benefit from being in the KDE repository
>> (translations and other stuff)
>> 5. we could replace the current automake based build system of the
>> plugin a lot easier (porting to cmake would be necessary make the KDE4
>> development easier)
>>
>> What do you think about this?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Cristian
>
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