[Interest] Thoughts on a 'proper' (or standard) file/io API for QML?

[Jason H]

> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 4:36 PM
> From: "Alejandro Exojo" <suy at badopi.org>
> To: interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Thoughts on a 'proper' (or standard) file/io API for QML?
>
> On Wednesday 10 August 2016 17:09:17 Jason H wrote:
> > I know it's not a normal thing, but occasionally in QML we need to access
> > files. Exposing an object is not hard, but it would be really good to have
> > a standard to enable QML libraries that use file IO.
> > 
> > There are two ways to basically so this:
> > - QML Specific API
> > - Node.JS-compatible API
> > 
> > I did find this: https://github.com/trollixx/node.qml
> 
> This is a different thing IMHO.
> 
> > But I think this is something Qt needs to standardize on. My opinion is to
> > use the Node API, which contains sync and async functions.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any opinions or insight on this?
> 
> Yes, isn't that what CommonJS intended? I don't remember what Qbs had, but 
> something like that I think.
> 
> Meanwhile, you should check this:
> 
> http://ibeliever.github.io/quickly/

That's great, but not dual licensed. It's GPLv3.  I still think Qt should provide a QML file IO API.