On Thursday 31 July 2014 10:30:56 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Monday 28 July 2014 11:08:59 Olivier Goffart wrote: > > > Otherwise, you can also use the KArchive module part of KDE Frameworks > > > http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/karchive/html/inde > > > x.html> > > The existence of KArchive basically blocks a new module in Qt that does > > this, unless this new module has relevant new functionality or is > > considerably less resource-demanding than KArchive. > > you wish. > > but in reality, as long as there is no competing free product that permits > digia to satisfy its (l)gpl-averse customers as well, the qt project will > welcome such an effort, even if i personally wouldn't recommend > duplicating the work.
True, but it will do so like you said: recommending against the duplicated effort. And to be honest, while convenient, this is not a must-have feature. With my OSS hat on, I would say (L)GPL-averse customers could be served right by their aversion by having one fewer solution. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
