Splitting the calligra repository

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, Sune Vuorela wrote:

> On 2014-08-18, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know we sort of decided to only do this after 2.9, but I just picked up
>> Jonathan Riddell's discussion on irc on how our current repository and
>> release makes life harder for packagers -- basically a split up repo
>> would be easier, apparently.
>
> With my packager hat on, it is much more important than 'small bits' to
> have only public stable components.
>
> Building a larger thing only takes cpu time, but trying to manage poorly
> managed libraries requires quite some brain time.
>
> I don't have the impression that the calligra team is willing to put in
> the resources to actually do proper library management.
>

We don't _have_ the resources -- at least not for something that goes 
beyond keeping the apps and the libraries build together for any given 
release.

Boudewijn