Poppler-qt4

[Wilfried Huss]

Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 20:27 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> A Dijous 29 Juny 2006 20:23, Wilfried Huss va escriure:
> > Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 19:38 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > > A Dijous 29 Juny 2006 17:45, Wilfried Huss va escriure:
> > > > Am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 13:57 schrieb Pino Toscano:
> > > > > Alle 13:41, giovedì 29 giugno 2006, Laurent Montel ha scritto:
> > > > > > There is two cmake file which allows to search poppler-qt4:
> > > > > > One into kdegraphics/cmake/module/FindPopplerQt4.cmake
> > > > > > one into playground/graphics/cmake/modules/FindPoppler.cmake
> > > > >
> > > > > I am the author of the latter, and I planned to do that merge in case
> > > > > of a moving of okular to kdegraphics.
> > > > >
> > > > > > I will want to move one into kdelibs (because it duplicates)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > One which is into playground search poppler-qt4 >= 0.5.2 so I will
> > > > > > add it into kdelibs and I will want to rename it as
> > > > > > FindPopplerQt4.cmake because it's a better name for it (and renamed
> > > > > > variable to add qt4 suffix)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Can I make it ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually, there's a small issue: okular stricly requires Poppler-Qt4
> > > > > >= 0.5.3 (yes, I have to update it) and this dependancy could raise
> > > > > if there will be new features needed for okular, while any other
> > > > > application that uses Poppler-Qt4 (kfile-pdf, kviewshell, krita
> > > > > maybe?) just want it with no particular requires on its version.
> > > >
> > > > kviewshell also needs the latest cvs snapshot of poppler, but the
> > > > version is not checked in the cmake file in kdegraphics.
> > >
> > > But the pdf kfile-plugin does not, it would not make sense disabling its
> > > compilation when you have poppler 0.5 for example. Can this be done with
> > > the cmake framework? And if it can, how?
> >
> > I don't think that is really an issue. Until KDE4 is released there is most
> > likely a stable poppler 0.6 or even 0.8. And anyone that wants to install
> > KDE4 will need to have a very uptodate base system anyway.
> >
> > > Anyway i obviously agree duplication is bad.
> >
> > Well, the duplication that is happening with kviewshell and okular is much
> > worse than having the same cmake file in two places. But this is a
> > different topic.
> 
> Yeah i think i should inmediately stop coding okular

No, you shouldn't. But having the complete DVI-rendering code two times in
SVN is a much greater maintainance problem, than a duplicated cmake file.
Besides, okular's fork of the DVI code has thrown away 9 years of commit history.
This is also a problem. I thougt KDE switched to SVN so that such things would
not happen again.

> (not that i do much  
> really, Pino is the master at the moment), i might even write some mails to 
> tell gnome dudes to stop doing gnome because we have KDE and freebsd, netbsd, 
> openbsd hackers to stop because we already have linux so who wants to have 
> another kernel, dude, probably i even will send a polite mail to yahoo CEO to 
> tell them to shup up their business because Google is doing better than them 
> in all aspects.

Please, don't be so dramatic.

> BTW this is not the right mailing list to discuss that.

Greetings,
Wilfried