RFC: Turning flag TINY into ACTIVEONLY, move Author to toplevel dir
Jaroslaw Staniek
staniek at kde.org
Tue Feb 19 10:55:39 GMT 2013
On 18 February 2013 23:31, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2013, 10:17:35 schrieb Jaroslaw Staniek:
>> Hi Friedrich, thanks for the effort and explanation.
>>
>> Regarding the naming only: I think TINY is useful in general. It would
>> be a starting point to alternative GUIs and apps that are not in the
>> Active family but are have in certain aspects minimal or stipped-down
>> functionality. So I'd like to effectively see general name (such as
>> TINY) kept as it is.
>
> What are you thinking exactly of? And we still could add that once those
> alternative GUIs and apps pop up, no?
>
> This sounds like preparing for hypothetical use cases, without concrete
> examples (and thus defined needs). But there are schools which teach to better
> avoid that, as it only adds unneeded complexity and will usually not be
> fitting stuff that actually pops up. And life showed at least me those schools
> are based on heuristics ;)
Well, KEXI_ONLY and KEXI_MOBILE is not hypothetical, we want to have
that targets too, e.g. for Windows and/or BB10/Android builds.
I don't know how to split the build targets now but the need is pretty
clear to me.
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