On Friday, July 12, 2019 12:23:58 PM EDT Volker Krause wrote: > With the 19.08 release approaching (and thus the deadline for incompatible > changes if we go ahead with this plan), I'd like to raise this again for > getting to a decision :) > > Summary of what happened in the past weeks: > - the Person/Attendee slicing issue was fixed by making both independent types > - several "leaf" types were turned into implicitly shared value types rather > than being used heap-allocated inside shared pointers > - the dependency on the Akonadi supertrait.h header file was removed > - the virtual_hook usage in the incidence de/serialization code was replaced > by new virtual methods > > Unless I missed something, the remaining unaddressed feedback is down to: > - Rename KCalCore to something else. I'm ok with executing the rename, but > somebody needs to tell me the new name :)
I don't remember the reason for changing the name. I vote for not changing the name. KCalCore is as good as any, imo > - Alexander P's fundamental objections to the current KCalCore API > > How do we proceed? > > Thanks, > Volker > > On Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:45:09 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to propose KCalCore for review to move from KDE PIM to KF5. > > > > KCalCore is an implementation of the iCalendar standard based on libical, > > covering the data model, input/output and the rather complex recurrence > > algorithms defined in that standard. It's used outside of KDE PIM as well, > > e.g. by Zanshin or the Plasma Mobile calendar app. > > > > KCalCore depends on Qt and libical only, making it a Tier 1 functional > > framework. > > > > KCalCore used to be part of part of kdepimlibs in the KDE4 era, so it's well > > prepared for complying with the API and ABI guarantees. > > > > I'd suggest the same timeline as proposed for KContacts [1]. During the PIM > > sprint we did a number of fixes and cleanups as part of the review for KF5 > > that make 19.08 the earliest release after which we can switch as well, so > > we are looking at a switch in Sep/Oct this year. > > > > > > Thanks, > > Volker > > > > [1] > > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2019-April/084057.html > >