DataEngines and models

Àlex Fiestas afiestas at kde.org
Fri Dec 27 23:51:54 UTC 2013


On Friday 27 December 2013 20:27:48 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 27 December 2013 09:50:46 Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> > So, if DataEngines are needed (I do not doubt that) let's continue having
> > them but let's stop pretending they are not public API or that they are
> > meant only for a quick hack. We don't want hacks do we? :p
> 
> +1 for de-hackify them ;)
> my point is that adding official api to put actual models in them (would be
> the same thing as imports, having to set the roleNames and all)
> 
> that would make possible to turn some of the current dataengines that have
> quite cosmic hacks to emulate models in some of their sources but not all.
> wether to choose for new stuff, probably time will tell, but should be
> possible to clean a lot currently existing ones

Okz, my email was more intended for possible third-party readers that might 
misinterpret the previous email (the hack part).

Cheerz !


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