[Digikam-devel] Does current git compile with KDE SC 4.10's kdegrphics libs?

[Veaceslav Munteanu]

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my response from private mail with Veaceslav :
>
> I think you don't need to back-port you patch in libkexiv2 from KDE 4.10
> branch... In fact you cannot back-port your patch and KDE 4.10 must preserve
> binary compatibility. Your patch break BC due to new methods add in library
>
> Don't forget that libkexiv2 is hosted in kdegraphics, which is a KDE
> component, released officially with KDE. Sure digiKam, because it's don't
> release at the same KDE time, it include last libkexiv2 code, but packagers
> can disable to use this library from digiKam tarball and use official
> libkexiv2 from KDE instead.
>
> This is the same workflow from libkipi and libkdcraw.
>
> Currently, your patch from libkexiv2 will be included with KDE 4.11. To be
> sure that digiKam can be compiled with libkexiv2 from KDE 4.10, you need to
> wrap your code from Digikam::DMetadata class into conditional pre-processor
> rules, checking libkexiv2 version ID shared with libkexiv2/version.h. It's
> very easy to do...
>
> Gilles
>

Fixed. Now digikam should compile with older libs. Let me know if
there are other incompatibility issues with dmetadata.cpp

--
Veaceslav