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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    The end of an era!
From:       Kurt Granroth <granroth () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-15 19:10:51
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Well, maybe not that dramatic, but I did just move the XML-RPC daemon from 
kdebase to kdenetwork AND changed it to not start by default.

The original reason for putting it in kdebase and starting by default was so 
that people would use it.  The reasoning was that if it wasn't there, then 
nobody could depend on it and thus nobody would use it.

Well, hardly anybody used it anyway.  The "bug reports" about open ports 
*far* outnumbered the success reports of people using it.

I could make an argument that when it gets SOAP support and that takes off 
more, then it'll be used more... but that's just vapor until it happens.  
Since KDE is first and foremost a pragmatic project, that excuse doesn't fly 
in keeping kxmlrpcd where it was.

So I moved it.  It's still available for those that *do* want to use it, 
you'll just have to explicitely look out for it.
-- 
Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
            KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop

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