Review Request: aprs: use external QextSerialPort for TTY reading

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On Nov. 30, 2012, 8:24 p.m., Pino Toscano wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 30, 2012, 8:24 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdewin, Marble, Release Team, and Wes Hardaker.
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> Description
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> Instead of embedding an (old) copy of the QextSerialPort library, find for an external one; only if found enable the reading from TTY, which is otherwise disabled (leaving its configuration tab disabled).
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> The drop of the internal QextSerialPort should also fix all the portability issues, since the plugin itself does not use any OS-dependent API, and it is then reenabled unconditionally.
> Hence, bug 241125 should now be fixed, and bug 237931 and bug 242039 should not happen anymore.
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> @release-team: yes, I know this would introduce a new optional dependency, but on the other hand a copy of a 3rd party library would go away. Would this be acceptable at this point?
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> This addresses bug 241125.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241125
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> Diffs
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>   cmake/modules/FindQextSerialPort.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   src/plugins/render/CMakeLists.txt d82293ee782e735ff1c90e6e13d330fb7cf8563c 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/AprsPlugin.cpp f406cec2ad665977830416aa7f5df59851a5e430 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/AprsTTY.cpp c65ac38b24269b608c8f3ea1452b670f9422174d 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/CMakeLists.txt fb6ef13c80568a72a5bfcf8a2e675b969238b9f6 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/aprsconfig.h.in d0e6b5c4ce36080dc0e59422529c55728ff04b3a 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/posix_qextserialport.cpp 118843f02a5c62fd708b9157e59a039dff06e238 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/qextserialport.h 457d831cffc4ae8c43ac7db2d85a20546eb65044 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/qextserialport.cpp 790e5a2701ba1291a645c4fd4b09a8a1c55d7541 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/qextserialport_global.h 013a6dcd4ecab97425b1286139af4f0e911c38c9 
>   src/plugins/render/aprs/win_qextserialport.cpp 5f21d7302e61b50825f79a68b352d5b9544b3fa3 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107536/diff/
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> Testing
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> The Aprs plugin compiles fine with and without an external QextSerialPort library.
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> Thanks,
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> Pino Toscano
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