On Saturday, 6 April 2019 18:01:09 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose KContacts for review to move from KDE PIM to KF5. > > KContacts is essentially an implementation of the vCard standard, covering > the data model as well as parsing and creating of vCard files. As the > recent CI issue showed it's used outside of KDE PIM as well, therefore we > would particularly benefit from the KF5 stability guarantees. > > KContacts depends on KConfig, KCodecs, KCoreAddons and KI18n, making it a > Tier 2 functional framework. > > KContacts used to be part of kdelibs during the 2 and 3 era under the name > "kabc", and part of kdepimlibs in the 4 era, so it's very well prepared for > complying with the API and ABI guarantees. > > To have a smooth as possible transition the proposed timeline would be: > - complete the review and possibly required adjustments before the 19.08 > freeze > - do one final release as part of KDE PIM with 19.08, with the final ABI and > library name for KF5 > - after 19.08 (so Sep or Oct 2019), release it with KF5, which will then be > a drop-in replacement for the KDE PIM release. > > This approach has already successfully been used for KHolidays and > Syndication. > > We did a review at the currently ongoing PIM sprint, which resulted in > removal of some ancient unused cruft (D20270, D20273, D20274, D20275, > D20276) which did technically change the ABI, therefore the transition > after 19.08 rather than 19.04.
With the 19.08 deadline approaching I'd also like to raise this again for a decision :) I'm not aware of any unaddressed feedback, main changes in the meantime: - a number of duplicated or string-based code in applications using this was upstreamed into KContacts with proper API - several types got Q_GADGET/Q_PROPERTY annotations for direct use in QML or Grantlee (now used directly by KAddressBook's display and printing code) - custom fields for messaging addresses are now converted to standard Impp fields, improving e.g. compatibility with Nextcloud and removing error-prone application code Thanks, Volker
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