On Saturday, 9 November 2019 12:33:54 CET Volker Krause wrote: > Hi, > > during Akademy there was a request to promote KDAV from KDE PIM to > Frameworks for use by Plasma Mobile. KDAV is a framework that implements > the CalDav/ CardDav/GroupDav protocol on top of KIO's WebDav support. It > would be classified as a functional tier 3 framework. > > So far we have fixed a number of obvious ABI-compatibility issues, removed > QtXml[Patterns] usage from the public interface and relicensed GPL parts > (apart from a bit of test code) to LGPL. The next step would be a more > thorough review to identify changes necessary before becoming a Framework. > > To avoid the last minute invasive changes we ended up doing for > KCalendarCore, I'd propose the following timeline: > > - identify and implement all necessary changes to the API and ABI until the > 20.04 Application release (that includes the still necessary move to the KF5 > library namespace).
The rename to the KF5 namespace has been done, if more changes to the ABI are necessary now would be a good time to point those out, so we can integrate them before the 20.04 freeze :) Thanks, Volker > - release KDAV with 20.04 with the final API/ABI that the first KF5 release > will provide as well > - become part of the KF5 release in May or June 2020, release as a drop-in > replacement of the last application release > > In general this is following the same transition process that has been used > for Syndication, KHolidays, KContacts and KCalendarCore as that should cause > minimal disruptions for distributors, but if there's better ideas on how to > handle this, now is a good time to bring this up :) > > Feedback? > > Thanks, > Volker
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