[Digikam-devel] Telepathy KIPI Plugin

[Gilles Caulier]

2012/3/6 Daniele E. Domenichelli <daniele.domenichelli at gmail.com>:
> On 06/03/12 22:21, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>>>
>>> At the same time I cannot release outside of the kipi-plugins, because it
>>> uses some classes of the kipi-plugins internal library
>>> (KIPIPlugins::KPImagesList and KIPIPlugins::KPAboutData)
>>>
>> you can make a copy of libkipiplugins code in the external plugin
>> version. It's not the best solution, but it can be a temp way...
>
>
> I think I will adopt this solution for now, I don't like it because it won't
> be easy to follow the changes from libkipiplugins, but it's the option that
> will break less stuff in the future...

As i manage with students this part, i can notify you about important changes.

>
>
>
>>>  What do you suggest to do?
>>
>> What's the plan to render ktp-common-internals API stable ?
>>
>> If this ktp-common-internals library is not to huge, why not to
>> temporally integrate as 3rd party in plugin as well ?
>>
>> Of course, until API becaome stable, shared and 3rd party code need to
>> be synchronized. This prevent to add an unstable external dependency
>> from a period where API must be stabilized...
>
>
> We don't have a real plan about stabilization of the ktp-common-internals
> library yet, we have still a lot of things missing and we don't know yet
> what we will break implementing those things (first of all, meta-contacts
> support is likely to break almost everything)
>
> What about libkipiplugins? Are you planning to consider it "stable" and
> install the headers one day?

I polished a lots this library to be ready for GSoC 2012. No important
changes will be done for few month i think.

We will never share this lib. It's an internal component for plugins.
digiKam team already manage a lots of shared libs (too much for me...)
and must take a care about BC. It's a complex puzzle.

The goal for you is to integrate officially your plugin in
kipi-plugins in the future. This is the real solution. I recommend to
be focused to stabilize API/ABI of your shared telepathy lib.

Gilles