[Development] Removing outdated / orphan wince contacts backend from QtContacts module

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 1/20/12 9:29 AM, "ext Robin Burchell" <robin+qt at viroteck.net> wrote:

>2012/1/20  <cristiano.di-flora at nokia.com>:
>> Since nobody is even planning to maintain / port that backend to the
>> QtContacts API, I am planning now to remove it from the source tree.
>>
>> Any immediate objections?
>>
>> If not, I'll prepare a patch for this, and make it open for review in
>>our
>> CodeReview system as usual.
>
>Just to add to what Cristiano is saying, there are some (rather large)
>changes to QtContacts manager plugins, like the removal of
>QContactLocalId. Porting is a bit of a job, especially since the CE
>plugin relies on integer IDs for interfacing with the native
>addressbook as far as I can see. It's perfectly possible, but it is a
>burden to do so, and then there's the problem that it isn't being
>compiled (AFAIK), and certainly not tested... So there are real
>reasons to remove this if nobody has the desire to maintain it.

Feel free to remove it if there's nobody stepping up to make it work. The
history is still there, so if someone wants to work on it again at a later
point in time, it's not hard to dig out the code as a starting point.

Cheers,
Lars