Two repos prepared for porting to Qt 5

[Inge Wallin]

On Friday, January 16, 2015 09:26:37 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 16 January 2015 at 09:14, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> > On Friday, January 16, 2015 01:26:20 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> For those willing to work on porting, two repos have been created:
> >> 
> >> git clone kde:scratch/staniek/kproperty
> >> git clone kde:scratch/staniek/kreport
> >> 
> >> These are files cut off from calligra/2.9, with history.
> >> It's best if you work in own scratch repos.
> > 
> > Why this?  That makes all cooperation impossible. The best thing would be
> > if somebody took the effort to port the CMakefiles to use KF5 but after
> > that it should be possible for anybody to port individual aspekts of it
> > independently, right?
> 
> Well, imagine that at this early stage I had to push with -force
> already once for these repos... not something expected in calligra/
> It's just not ready for use, porting these libs within calligra/ does
> not seem justified to me: we'd fix paths for example to reflect
> conventions of Qt 5 but paths and namespaces will change after
> extraction to separate libs => extra work.

That's not what I was replying to. My point was that "It's best if you work in 
own scratch repos." makes no sense since it will be impossible to cooperate.

> BTW, these two are only used by Kexi and no refactoring happen, just
> semi-automatic work. And after all these are easier libs so give us
> get some real experience.
> 
> > At least, that is how it has worked in kde-edu and that gave no problems
> > whatsoever.
> > 
> >> Porting hints: https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5