KDE/kdepimlibs

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 13.05.09 18:37:53, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 May 2009, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > Alle martedì 12 maggio 2009, Christophe Giboudeaux ha scritto:
> > > 5/ Considering 1,2 and 3, I still didn't read any valid reason for using
> > > the same prefix as kdelibs, kdebase, kdegames etc... and add more files
> > > inside /KDE.
> >
> > Coherency with other modules?
> > - all of KDE installs lowercase includes in $prefix/include, CamelCase ones
> > in $prefix/include/KDE
> 
> Question here is, what is KDE.
> Must any package which links against kdecore install its headers into 
> include/KDE/ ?
> I would see include/KDE/ actually more as the include directory for the 
> kdelibs module.

Why is it include/KDE then? Thats confusing, because the name right now
suggests that its the camel-case-header directory for all of KDE. And
having include/KDE with for example kdebase libs and koffice libs is
even more confusing if kdepimlibs does it all different.

> That's also what find_package(KDE4) does, it doesn't find everything
> on the system which is KDE-related, it finds only kdelibs.

Agree.

> I think I agree with Christophe that installing kdepimlibs into its own subdir 
> would be a good thing.

I do understand your point, but IMHO having now one or two modules in
include/<modulename> but other modules (not only kdelibs, but also
kdebase libs) in include/KDE just adds confusion. We should just put
this down as todo for KDE5 to use include/<modulename> for _all_ modules
including kdelibs and leave what we have now so its at least consistent
- even though not perfect.

> ...
> > So, are there other serious reasons, other than that kdepimlibs "looks
> > special(?)" wrt the rest of KDE?
> 
> It's how "the rest of KDE" is defined. As I said above, I think it makes sense 
> to see include/KDE/ as the include dir for the core of KDE, which is kdelibs.

I don't, for me include/KDE naturally translates to any core module of
KDE (i.e. anything in trunk/KDE). Only include/KDELibs would translate
to kdelibs to me.

Andreas

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