[Kde-scm-interest] [Proposal] Package splitting with thin meta-repos

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 19 March 2010, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 11 February 2010, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Monday 08 February 2010, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 of February 2010 12:42:02 Mike Arthur wrote:
> > > > On 6 Feb 2010, at 14:41, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> > > > > How about moving all shared .cmake files to either separate package
> > > > > (or maybe with modules fetched from Internet, sth like knewstuff or
> > > > > PEAR or just SVN) - as current kdelibs cmake policies are too
> > > > > strict, besides rebuilding kdelibs just to get newer cmake files
> > > > > seems silly. That would benefit both cases imho.
> > > >
> > > > How are the current KDELibs CMake policies "too strict"? What
> > > > problems are these causing?
> > >
> > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_and_Source_Compatibility
> > > (general) http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_Commit_Policy
> > > (kdelibs/cmake)
> > >
> > > KDElibs CMake policies cause no problems - they solve them. It's just
> > > this strictness currently may seem to discourage developers from
> > > getting their .cmake files in shape and pushing them to kdelibs instead
> > > of bundling within modules (like kdenetwork etc).
> >
> > If we would have another package just consisting of cmake files, I think
> > the same rules would have to apply to it, and I think this may have the
> > same effect on the developers.
> > Installing cmake files comes with a cost, so not sharing them if they are
> > used only in some very rare cases also has advantages.
>
> How about this: instead of installing a bunch of FindFoo.cmake files, we
> could just collect them e.g. in kdesdk/cmake/modules/ or something like
> that. If somebody needs a module, he gets a copy from there and includes
> this in his application.
> This way we wouldn't have to care about compatibility, and still we would
> have a place where people could manually get cmake find-module files.

Any comments ?

Alex