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From:       Jürgen Appel <juergen_appel () gmx ! de>
Date:       2003-06-03 11:34:15
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and, yes i am aware that this was done faster than the prophecied 7 hours. 
cuz..: SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER. at least till 5h in the eve...

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<section
   title="Reusing KOffice's Code"
   author="Juergen Appel"
   contact="valiantSPAMWILLBE@BLACKHOLEIFIEDweb.de"
   subject="Using the KOffice API's in new projects"
   archive="http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&amp;m=105414552213965&amp;w=2"
   posts="10"
   startdate="Wed May 28 19:59:29 2003"
   enddate="Thu May 29 16:59:57 2003"
 >
<topic>KOffice</topic>

<p>
  Jeff McLean wanted to start a drawing application
  on his own, using KOffice API. Therefore he had a few
  questions:
</p>

<quote who="Jeff McLean">
<p>

<ul>
<li>
The developer APIs (the includes) are not installed on machines 
just because KOffice is installed.  Is it possible to install the
includes so that I could use the APIs the same way I'd use the KDE APIs?
</li>

<li>
Using the KOffice APIs would make my project a KOffice thing, I 
guess, is that allowed? or do you need permission or something???
</li>    

<li>
I wouldn't want to make users have to install the KOffice includes 
just so that they can compile my application.
</li>
</ul>
I welcome all discussion of this, cause I don't even really know how exactly 
to ask... I just want to re-use some code that was very well done for 
KOffice, withought any cutting and pasting.

Confused,
Jeff
</p>
</quote>

<p>Dirk Schoeneberger's reply was quite interesting:</p>

<quote who="Dirk Schoeneberger">
<p>
there are currently discussions to make Karbon more re-useable and to use it
in other software projects.
This includes makeing it KOffice independent. 
</p>
</quote>

<p>David Faure focussed his reply on each question, saying:</p>

<quote who="David Faure">
<p>
<ul>
<li>
(ed. note: on question 1)<br/>
kostore, kofficecore, kofficeui and a few others (kformula, kwmf etc.)
are installed. Which libs are you talking about?
</li>

<li>
(ed. note: on question 2)<br/>
Nope, all the libs are LGPL, you can use them to base your application
upon, no problem there ("need permission"... did you mean this the
other way round?)
</li>

<li>
(ed. note: on question 3)<br/>
You can't have it all - if your app is a koffice component, they'll need
koffice-devel...
</li>
</ul>
</p>
</quote>
<p>Jeff wasn't aware that there is such a thing called koffice-devel-package,
but pretty content to find out.<br/>
(ed.) Best wishes from the KC-KDE, Jeff.
</p>
</section> 


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