What to do with the Krita & Calligra?

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi,

Am Montag, 30. Mai 2016, 16:14:32 CEST schrieb Boudewijn Rempt:
> Hi,
> 
> Tomorrow we'll release Krita 3.0.

So awesome to have reached that point :)

> At that point, the stable version
> of Krita is no longer part of Calligra. On the other hand, Krita is
> still part of the last stable release of Calligra, which makes it
> hard for distributions to package both and make them coinstallable.

Does it? Did anyone report problems?

> When we split up Krita and Calligra I had expected both projects to
> release more or less at the same moment, especially because the port
> seemed to have posed much fewer problems for Calligra than for Krita.
> 
> The question is: what do we do now? I guess there are three options:
> 
> * Also release Calligra 3.0 Really Soon Now

Sadly not possible, given the lack of dev resources at the moment.

> * Make a Calligra 2.9 release without Krita

Would that be really needed? Unless some distri packages all of Calligra into 
one package (which would be aweful and IMHO not supported by us), packagers 
should be able to create packages of new Krita next to packages from the old 
calligra, no?

> * Accept the problem and do nothing

Packagers could be told to use the cmake flag "-DBUILD_krita=off" with the 
existing calligra 2.9 tarball, that should in theory work to skip krita. But 
well, I am not sure what the problem is.

> There is a simular problem with the calligra.org website: when will
> we remove Krita from the website? When there's a new Calligta
> release, now that there's a new Krita release, or...

IMHO as soon as Krita 3 is out. The old landing page on calligra.org/krita 
would tell about Krita now grown up to be a project of its own.

Cheers
Friedrich