From kde-core-devel  Sun Oct 31 12:15:45 2010
From: Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:15:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: "Cornelius's grand plan" - Merging KDElibs into Qt
Message-Id: <201010311215.45736.aacid () kde ! org>
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A Diumenge, 31 d'octubre de 2010, Matt Williams va escriure:
> On 31 October 2010 11:53, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 31 October 2010 11:33, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann@kde.org> wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >> 
> >> after reading the whole thread that started with Chani's mail ("why
> >> kdelibs?"), I think the noise level has become a bit too much there.
> >> Cornelius had proposed this rather daring idea:
> >> 
> >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=128842761708404&w=2
> > 
> > Sounds great.  This should probably be done by picking a specific
> > technology in KDE, and adapting it and merging it to work in Qt.
> > 
> > A wonderful place to start would be kioslaves imho.  This is something
> > which has a real advantage, is relatively self-contained, and would
> > provide a big advantage.  Possibly it needs to be merged more with the
> > Qt API though.
> 
> So, if we decided that we wanted to merge KIO slaves into Qt, what
> would the steps we go through be?

Rewriting all the code in kioslaves contributed by people (like me) that don't 
agree to Qt licensing requirements.

Albert