On Thursday 18 December 2014 12:43:18 Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Milian Wolff <m...@milianw.de> wrote: > > May I ask the question why Baloo should become a framework in the first > > place? > > On Windows or Mac, people won't use it anyways, no? Or is it required > > there > > for e.g. searches in KMail? > > * Windows and Mac people should be using the search indexes already present > there. > * Baloo is used as a library by - Plasma, KRunner, Dolphin and GwenView. It > would be good to give it API + ABI guarantees. While I agree it doesn't > need to be a framework for this, nothing really has to be a framework. We > all can just release software independently. > * I'm hoping that other desktop environments might want to think about use > it. We don't have many file searching solutions in the linux world. Again, > it doesn't need to be a framework to do this. However, releasing it as part > of Plasma does make it appear to be more tightly bound to Plasma. > * I like the 1 month cycles that Frameworks follows. > * It isn't required for KMail any more. It's purely for file searching + > indexing. > > Anyway, I guess I could possibly just move Baloo to extragear and start > doing 1 month releases on my own. But it would be taxing.
Thanks for the answer, Vishesh. These are valid reasons, imo, esp. when thinking about other desktop environments. Cheers -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel