What's new in KReport & KProperty & Predicate

Sat Apr 18 18:27:54 BST 2015

New code in kreport, please read:

+ 1a13b092b091e0dd8cbe72d091a666ed6ee24eab Port KoPageFormat to Qt5
+ a730d9b164f9165fe326fd6833e7391c3d127e0c Port
KGlobalSettings::smallestReadableFont()
+ 2627fcb9d787c271c6c7fd50f0aa1cc0bfbfbade Port from KTemporaryFile
+ 844a355f0367545ca0b7c3e3ca1a0d09c7c04f3b More ifdefs for scripting code
+ 6eef4d819113af81369cac0f445148e66ae782b4 most dependent libs are private
+ 4a1cdfe33d3af764dfee297da760d48f68578dcb Remove unused method declaration
+ c55078ae3c653c82feaf1428bc11de6e2318f2cb Temporarily disable ods/odt renderers

On 16 April 2015 at 23:15, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi!
> Update:
> - I am keeping new changes to kreport in
> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkreport%2Fstaniek%2Fwork.git
> @Adam, could you please review? These big boring patches do not fit to
> reviewboard too much.
>
> - I am finalizing the plugin manager work for kreport to make it as
> recommended in https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Schedules/3.0/Porting_Notes#Plugin_system
>
> See also the updated
> https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Schedules/3.0/Porting_Plan for more
> overview.
>
> On 13 April 2015 at 00:43, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>
> --
> 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