[Development] QtSingleApplication in Qt proper?

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Thu Jun 16 19:03:09 CEST 2016



16.06.2016, 11:07, "Kevin Funk" <kfunk at kde.org>:
> On Donnerstag, 16. Juni 2016 03:43:29 CEST Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>  Kevin Funk wrote:
>>  > To come to the point: We'd like to be able to use QtSingleApplication,
>>  > without having to copy it to every KDE application's repository out there
>>  > and building it ourselves. Several KDE applications (KDevelop, Krita,
>>  > Kate) already do so.
>>
>>  Why can't you simply require it as an external dependency? GNU/Linux
>>  distributions already package it as a standalone package. (See e.g.
>>  http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/qtsingleapplication.git/tree/ which
>>  builds both the Qt 4 version and the Qt 5 version from the same upstream
>>  source code.)
>
> I did not realize there are ready packages on some distributions out there.
> There isn't on Ubuntu at least (which is fixable of course).
>
> I also just now realize that qt-solutions.git has a maintained version of
> qtsingleapplication:
>   https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-solutions/qt-solutions.git/log/
> qtsingleapplication
>
> I'd like to hear more opinions about whether there's still interest in having
> it in Qt proper. There are obviously advantages to it: CI coverage (qt-
> solutions.git isn't covered by CI, right?), and QtSA getting a bit of exposure
> so it does not feel like a, well, 3rdparty Qt solution.
>
> qt-solutions.git seems a place where deprecated components are kept alive, but
> not experiencing feature development in my book.

+1, it should be promoted to add-on at least.

>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>>          Kevin Kofler
>>
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