[Digikam-devel] Prepare the future : merging digiKam and DigikamImagePlugins

[Gilles Caulier]

Well, look in multimedia, both autotools and cmake config files are present.
It work.

Gilles


2007/3/1, Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
>
> > yes, but i won't to fight with an hard installation of KDE 4 on my
> > computer. If Mandriva provide standard packages, it will be more easy to
> > do...
>
> Yes if Mandriva provides developer packages in time? There is no official
> release of KDE4 yet, only snapshots. And you need Qt4.3 - not yet
> released,
> so you need qt-copy.
> There is also mentioned the possibility to do a non-root installation of
> KDE4.
> Perhaps in the next or the following week I will try to install a fresh
> KDE4
> and then I will tell you about my experience ;-)
>
> > > > improve anything. Marcel, i need your viewpoint here...
> > >
> > > Yes multithreading is easier with Qt4, but that's not a problem for
> > > porting,
> > > the code still works, it means we can actually remove code (and I will
> > > very
> > > happily volunteer to remove all the manual event sending code,
> > > QDeepCopies of
> > > QStrings from our multithreaded parts).
> >
> > Fine for me if you can do it (:=)))
>
> Oh yes. I am really looking forward to delete some parts of the code and
> replace it with queued signals ;-) That's fun ;-))
>
> > > Overall KDE policy is clear: trunk is KDE4 because it's the future.
> > > Branches
> > > are KDE3. Amarok also has its KDE4 = main development branch as trunk.
> >
> > This is true about KDE core, but extragear is different and do not
> follow
> > KDE release plan...
> >
> > The problem is than extragear host multiple project witch will use QT3
> for
> > a long time.
> >
> > Question : where Amarok team have placed the QT4 port source code ? It's
> > Amarok is moved to KDE core (like Gwenview) ?
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/ :
> There is a CMakeLists.txt, and the code is Qt4. All Makefile.* are
> removed.
> In the parent directory http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/
> there is also a CMakeLists.txt, and still a Makefile.cvs.
>
>
> > If i'm following you, after to release digiKam 0.9.1-final, we copy the
> > code
> >
> > >from trunk to stable, and we continue the QT3 digiKam serie in stable,
> and
> >
> > in trunk, we start the QT4 port. In this case, we will have a conflict
> with
> > others extragear applications witch continue to use QT3. In fact, the
> > problem is about the common autotools rules (.configure and makefile.am)
> > witch are obsolete with CMake. Can we have both at the same time and at
> the
> > same place ?
>
> We have to talk to the other extragear applications about the location of
> the
> libraries that we share.
> Again taking extragear/multimedia as an example, amarok/ is Qt4, while
> kmplayer/ is apparently not yet ported. So it seems to work. (I still have
> to
> read the documentation on CMake)
>
> Marcel
>
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