[Development] A QtCore class for event-driven jobs

[Laszlo Papp]

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:40 PM, Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 2013/9/9 Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk>
>
>> The api has been stabilized and well tested since like forever.
>>
>> Let's get a QAbstractJob heavily inspired by KJob in now.
>>
>> A nice side effect of getting it in now is that the myriad of nice
>> frameworks KDE is preparing for ship could be built on QAbstractJob and
>> KDE could skip shipping KJob and move everything over to QAbstractJob
>> now and not after we in KDE has made our first release where we promise
>> to keep ABI and API stability.
>>
>>
> That's indeed what I was afraid of. Your goal is KJob in Qt 5.2 so you can
> use it by only linking to QtCore.
> Once released, it's API become frozen up until 6.0...and you don't really
> care about all others who may disagree with it's design or simply can not
> use it due to it's limited API and so on.
>

+1

-- Laszlo
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