[Kexi-devel] RFC: plan for starting the Qt5/KF5 port

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

First let's verify if astyle-kdelibs changes only whitespace.



On 3 March 2015 at 23:29, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag, 27. Februar 2015, 19:03:30 schrieb Thorsten Zachmann:
>> Hello,
>>
>> > I say it should be done now, and be done to 2.9 too
>> >
>> > And I almost don't think maintainers should be able to say no. The long
>> > term goal of having a clean codebase is more important than short term
>> > issue with git blame (have a separate permanent checkout before this
>> > revision where you can run git blame)
>> >
>> > After all maintainers and developers come and go. It's important all of
>> > our
>> > codebase is as easy and consistent to look at as possible - and yeah i
>> > know
>> > that is an argument for keeping easy history too - sigh
>>
>> There is also the option -w to git blame that ignores whitespace changes.
>> Which should be the majority of changes showing a problem.
>
> So, where are we with the decision about when, where and for which parts to
> run astyle-kdelibs? Has anyone already tried how the diff will actually look
> like after it got applied? I wanted to give it a try yesterday, but after I
> had adapted the seemingly already partially redundant patches for latest
> astyle of OpenSUSE, I was stopped by needing "normalizer" from an extended qt5
> build with qtrepotools created, which seems not packaged at least with
> opensuse qt5 packages?
>
> Too bad I only recently freed my disk from any custom qt5 builds...
>
> So, anyone else who could tell how much the history will be screwed, besides
> whitespaces?
>
> Other than that it seems to me no one now strongly rejects
> * astyle-kdelibs being applied to all of Calligra code
> * doing that in master
> * right before the port starts.
>
> Does this sounds like something that will make most people happy and least
> people unhappy?
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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