How to share KoUnit?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I'd say, keep a copy until at least 3.0 is done. Before that, I really 
wouldn't like to start splitting out libraries from the git repo. It's 
going to be hard enough already to make the kf5 port work out.

On Mon, 6 Apr 2015, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

> Hi,
> For a good reason internal format of Kexi Report documents is modelled
> after ODF specs. [0]
> In particular units are. So in Calligra 2.x we started to use KoUnit
> in libs/koreport and, by extension, in libs/koproperty.
>
> Now it's not that easy after recent extracting both to KReport [1] and
> KProperty [2] frameworks, respectively. For now both frameworks have a
> copy of KoUnit, which is ugly and soon will be unusable because they
> should share one.
>
> Would you think it's time to start having a part of the ODF lib in a
> separate repo. Who's going to maintain it?
> From the point of view of the entire suite, the above story isn't too important.
>
> The issue of sharing the code between KProperty and KReport would be
> solved by offering the shared classes in KProperty.
> But interesting bit is then that Kexi would use these copies
> (naturally, KoUnit renamed to something else, etc.) instead of the
> originals from calligra/libs/.
>
> Ideas?
>
> PS: Similar challenge applies to KoLineStyleSelector, KoPageFormat,
> KoDpi, KoRuler, KoViewConverter, KoZoomMode, KoZoomHandler.
>
> [0] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Plugins/Reports/Fileformat
> [1] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5#kreport
> [2] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5#kproperty
>
> -- 
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
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