Qt-only version of Kompare

[Kevin Kofler]

On Monday 12 December 2011, Bud Millwood wrote:
> There's also the problem that most distros get overzealous on the
> dependencies, and the worst offenders are the distros that are not
> targeted at the particular DE whose libraries you need. IOW, it
> wouldn't surprise me to see that XUbuntu wanted to install way more of
> KDE than I want, simply because they have little experience with it.
> OpenSuSE seemed to do this with Gnome programs.

All the *buntu variants actually share the same repositories, so those KDE 
packages you're getting in Xubuntu are actually packaged by the Kubuntu team!

> Well to this end, if I find that I really can't live without it, would
> you be averse to accepting patches that enabled a Qt-only version that
> could be built directly from source for those of us no longer using
> KDE? If not, I do, in fact, completely understand; it would require
> that you maintain that separation. Another possibility would be for me
> to fork it; I'm sure the code base is not complex by any standard.

It's a PITA to maintain and you're going to reinvent the wheel, e.g. 
reimplement all the stuff over QProcess that KProcess has. I think it's a pure 
waste of your time, and my time if I'd merge it. kdelibs exists for a reason, 
why reinvent it?

So I can only recommend you to not do that, and if you insist, it's extremely 
unlikely it will be merged.

        Kevin Kofler