What's new in KReport & KProperty & Predicate

Sun Apr 12 23:43:56 BST 2015

Update:
- Everything what's enabled in KReport (the *Manager isn't) compiles
- Predicate rename to KDb in progress, for code see my kdb branch or
the scratch repo:
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fpredicate%2Fstaniek%2Fwork.git&a=shortlog&h=c7751f3846b9054244337c887836e28ccae485bd

On 9 April 2015 at 10:45, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Please publish the patch as an attachment as we did before.
> We're waiting for admins and systems to synchronize everything.
>
> Sure, I don't touch kreport to avoid conflicts :)
> Just updating calligra frameworks branch to reflect changes that
> happened to koproperty.
>
> On 9 April 2015 at 08:01, Adam Pigg <piggz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Excellent, I've got a lot of changes to push to kreport, am I waiting for rb to work?
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>   Original Message
>> From: Jaroslaw Staniek
>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:45 PM
>> To: kexi-devel at kde.org
>> Reply To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list
>> Cc: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list
>> Subject: Re: What's new in KReport & KProperty & Predicate
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Update: KProperty and KReport frameworks have moved to the official places:
>>
>> git clone kde:kproperty
>> git clone kde:kreport
>>
>> The page [1] has been updated accordingly.
>>
>> Notes
>> 0. Consider API and state of KProperty ready to use within Calligra
>> (for now Kexi and Plan) and elsewhere (if someone is in need)
>> 1. There won't be pushes with --force anymore for kproperty and kreport :)
>> 2. The reviewboard will be available soon and all usual infrastructure
>> you know from the KDE repos.
>> 3. kreport still doesn't build fully (this is a dependency for porting
>> of Kexi and Plan)
>> 4. please coordinate planned changes with me, innocent changes such as
>> file renames may set your patch hard to apply.
>> 5. predicate stays in the scratch repo for some time awaiting history
>> editing, until we get proper dir layout
>>
>> [1] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
>>
>> On 6 April 2015 at 16:17, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Update:
>>> - cmake build scripts for KProperty and KReport are largely following
>>> the conventions of KF5 and e.g. KDiagram
>>> - KProperty now uses CamelCase filenames and (mostly) the convention
>>> of KProperty prefix for class names (so the KoProperty namespace is
>>> removed)
>>> - Consider KProperty are almost ready for placing in the final
>>> repository. Example app in examples/ subdir works.
>>> - part of the KReport is ported to use QLatin1String where needed,
>>> also some includes are fixed; Adam is helping with this right now
>>>
>>> TODO:
>>> - more QLatin1String and include fixes for KReport
>>> - port KReport to the new KProperty naming conventions
>>> - some test app for KReport would help us to verify it without waiting
>>> for Kexi to be ported
>>>
>>> Feel free to test and report any ideas/issues.
>>>
>>> On 3 April 2015 at 01:07, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> There's a number of new commits in the temporary repos [0].
>>>> A short update and proposed plans.
>>>> Let's make them work, test them so they're not blockers for porting
>>>> Kexi anymore.
>>>>
>>>> (we're assuming KF5 frameworks are installed from packages or built
>>>> with the great kdesrc-build tool [1])
>>>>
>>>> KProperty:
>>>> - builds and installs
>>>> - includes changes from Adam [2]
>>>> - includes all changes from calligra/2.9
>>>> - headers install to include/KProperty
>>>>
>>>> KReport:
>>>> - includes changes from Adam [3]
>>>> - TODO: more build would work if "find_package(KProperty REQUIRED)" works
>>>> - TODO: add the central CMakeLists.txt, like in KProperty, for now we
>>>> have to build kreport/src/.
>>>> - TODO: install headers to include/KReport
>>>>
>>>> Predicate:
>>>> - not much recently, needs more patches ported from calligra/2.9,
>>>> please help with this
>>>> - soon also this [4]
>>>>
>>>> All three:
>>>> - TODO: dig in their central CMakeLists.txt files to make them
>>>> configure similarly to KF5 packages so line such as "find_package(....
>>>> REQUIRED)" adds necessary include path for the users of the libs;
>>>> volunteers needed here
>>>> - TODO: once we have all three usable, porting scripts will be in use
>>>> - Note: no calligra activities from the 'frameworks' branch of
>>>> calligra affect these 3 libs because the 'frameworks' branch no longer
>>>> contains their code (so no merges from 'frameworks' are expected, only
>>>> small merges by hand for bugfixes from calligra/2.9)
>>>>
>>>> [0] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
>>>> [1] https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building
>>>> [2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123038/
>>>> [3] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123039/
>>>> [4] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122015/
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>
>>>> KDE:
>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>> Kexi:
>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>
>>> KDE:
>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>> Calligra Suite:
>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>> Kexi:
>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>
>> KDE:
>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>> Calligra Suite:
>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>> Kexi:
>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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>
>
> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
> KDE:
> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
> Calligra Suite:
> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
> Kexi:
> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> Qt Certified Specialist:
> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek


-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
Calligra Suite:
: A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
Kexi:
: A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek