Kompare and KDE4

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Hi all,

Currently I am on holiday, trying to type on a French keyboard...
To react briefly: I will also have some time to port Kompare to kde4 this autumn/winter. But only the 3-way branch.

I'll be back at August 12th.

regards,
Winfried

----- Origineel bericht -----
Van: Jeff Snyder <jeff at caffeinated.me.uk>
Datum: zaterdag, juli 29, 2006 1:48
Onderwerp: Re: Kompare and KDE4

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> And apologies for the late response, as Winfried correctly 
> guessed, I've 
> been on holiday for the past couple of weeks. As Jaison pointed 
> out, 
> I've also been inactive for most of this year for various reasons.
> 
> The 3-way kompare branch was originally created as a branch for 
> the 
> feature it is named after, but became an ongoing development 
> branch that 
> was used because it  allowed people (at the time just me) to work 
> on it 
> without the schedules and pressure associated with the kde release 
> cycle.The plan then was to port the branch to kde4 and replace the 
> copy in 
> trunk - and to this end I deleted the copy in kde4's branch (back 
> when 
> it was in one) so that the old trunk copy wouldn't be ported. But 
> somehow it came back, and it's now had all the kde-wide porting 
> scripts 
> run on it.
> As I remember it, the 3-way branch isn't too far from being 
> compilable, 
> I should be able to get it into a compilable state over the 
> weekend at 
> least. However, there's a few things to fix before it'd be usable, 
> most 
> of which didn't get fixed because the effort would be wasted on 
> kde3 and 
> need to be re-done after the kde4 port.
> 
> So ideally, I'd like to see the 3-way branch ported to kde4, 
> because 
> merging the 3-way branch back into trunk would be almost 
> impossible 
> given how much it's changed. I'm willing to put in manpower to do 
> this, 
> but it will need quite a lot. The main problem is (as Winfried 
> mentioned) porting to the model/view classes---for the views, this 
> is 
> more like a rewrite (unless we use Qt3Support).
> 
> Lastly, this discussion should move to the kompare-devel list 
> (kompare-devel at kde.org), i've cc'd it on this email.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>