Qt-only version of Kompare

[Bud Millwood]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> 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!

Point taken, I will give this consideration.

>
>> 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.

OK, thanks for your time.

- Bud

>        Kevin Kofler