From kde-core-devel  Fri Jan 25 02:03:52 2008
From: nf2 <nf2 () scheinwelt ! at>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:03:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multi-Protocol IO-Slave
Message-Id: <47994388.7000209 () scheinwelt ! at>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=120122668314037

Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le jeudi 10 janvier 2008, nf2 a écrit :
>   
>> This patch extends the KProtocolInfo system to accept a special
>> Multi-Protocol IO-Slave:
>> [...]
>>     
>
> The patch itself looks fine code wise. That said...
>
>   
>> [...]
>> This patch has no effect on the behavior of KIO unless a Multi-Protocol
>> IO-Slave .protocol file is installed. The aim of this patch is to allow
>> to develop and test bridging into a cross-desktop network-transparency
>> library without having to recompile or repackage kdelibs/kdebase
>> (without having to remove .protocol files of the original IO slaves).
>>     
>
> If that's the only purpose of this patch, I'm not exactly hot to commit it in 
> kdelibs. I think it should be maintained in a kdelibs branch you could use 
> for your experiments, or as a patch in the same directory than your ioslave.
>
>
>   

Ok. The patch for enabling multi-protocol slave support is here now:

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/ioslaves/kio-giobridge/patches/

regards,
Norbert