Would it be possible for KweatherCore to lean on location services like Geoclue? (And/if should we be working on a KDE GUI for Geoclue to help with this? That way Kweather could only be dealing with resolving weather info)
On Sunday, December 20, 2020 10:16:09 PM PST hanyoung wrote: > KWeatherCore: https://invent.kde.org/libraries/kweathercore is a library for > querying weather forecast data. During the development of KWeather, we > found the need to have a weather library. KWeatherCore is the result of > extracting weather data fetching code from KWeather. I think having a > dedicated weather library can serve the following propose: - simplify the > KWeather code > - easier to develop a weather daemon > - potentially less code duplication across KDE > > Many of you may have already seen my previous email to kde-devel mailing > list. > Thank you for your constructive suggestions. Here are something I want to clarify: > > I would also propose to consider doing a demon instead, so different > > programs/processes all interested in weather forecast data could share the > > data > > The end goal is a daemon indeed, but we want to build the daemon upon the > library. This would give us flexibility in the future if we don't want a > daemon. At least KWeather and other projects can still benefit from the > code. > > but we want to make sure we don't end up with two things. > > I admit there are some overlapped functionalities. But KWeatherCore isn't > designed as a weather data provider as Weather DataEngine. Instead, it's > trying to be the building block of weather related applications. > KWeatherCore saves you the hassle of dealing with APIs, getting locations > and converting timezone. You can build a daemon with it, or you can use it > in your applications. For example, KItinerary and KWeather use the same > weather API, but don't share code. That means two code base to maintain. > Regarding the dynamic nature of online APIs, it's better to have one > library, so other applications don't need to be worried about their APIs > being depraved, and they aren't able to update it in time. > > Though not currently implemented, KWeatherCore does intend to have weather > alerts added. We hope it can be done in this Sok > https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2021#KWeather > With this bit added, then the work on weather daemon can be started. > > Regards, > Han Young
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