[calligra] /: Move core parts of KexiDB lib to libcalligradb

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Fri Jul 13 09:11:20 BST 2012


On Friday 13 July 2012 Jul, C. Boemann wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2012 08:45:13 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > On Friday 13 Jul 2012, you wrote:
> > > Flexibility is a +1, but one -1 (besides adding further complexity to
> > > cmake files) is that these build profiles should only be used for
> > > custom builds. We don't want stripped-down Word in the popular
> > > distros, for example, not being able to handle the Biblio feature.
> > 
> > You really don't have to worry about distributions, packagers will package
> > with every optional dependency as possible, and as long as they are listed
> > at the end of the configuration step, they will notice them and include
> > them. This is why we often get the complain that Calligra installation is
> > bloated. Personnaly, I think it is ok.
> > 
> > However I thought we were in agreement that we wanted to make it possible
> > to create very lightweight custom build of calligra with as few
> > dependencies as possible.
> > 
> > In any case, new hard dependencies need to be discussed and announced on
> > the mailing list in advance.
> uhm there was a review request for about a week

Yeah, I saw that request. But that's not the same same as writing a mail to the mailing list announcing extra dependencies. I saw the request, but I was blindsided by it as well.


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