https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreadd … index.html
KCoreAddons provides classes built on top of QtCore to perform various tasks such as manipulating mime types, autosaving files, creating backup files, generating random sequences, performing text manipulations such as macro replacement, accessing user information and many more.
For me and packaging work add one or 5 externals KF5 libs is the same thing, we would incline to add new other libraries in the future like KArchive, etc. see : https://inqlude.org/
KDE and KDAB guys do a very good work.
KDAB and KDE have a very close relationship. Around 40% of KDAB employees are or have been KDE contributors. In fact, some have been contributing for more than a decade. So, KDAB has been sponsoring KDE’s Akademy for quite a while.
https://www.kdab.com/expertise/cpp/cpp-tools/
It saves us from reinventing the wheel.
On the other hand, it makes it easier to add code and new features, but it greatly complicates the packaging work.
And for git submodules is it allowed or not?
Yes . ;-)
I hope it doesn't make my job as a packager even more complicated.
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