Re: [Kde-pim] What's up with kdepim*?

On Monday 20 Jul 2015 23:01:34 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Monday July 20 2015 15:48:42 ianseeks wrote:
> > On Monday 20 Jul 2015 15:21:39 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:19 PM, laurent Montel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Framework is a synonym for library.
> 
> Not exactly, no. A framework is a bit more than just a library; AFAIK the
> term was used first by Apple to indicate something comparable to a (shared)
> library which is in fact a bundle containing the library binary and/or (the
> associated) headerfiles possibly combined with metadata and dependencies.
> In the OS X Finder you can manipulate these things because they pack
> everything under a single directory (which is even movable to some extent).
> I doubt a bit that one could achieve that with the KDE Frameworks should it
> ever be a goal.
> 
> R.

I would have called the whole of QT a Framework but Martin Grasslin's latest 
blog post says he prepared 3 Frameworks to work with Wayland, maybe its just a 
language translation oddity.
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