Kate CVS module

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Friday 31 May 2002 19:37, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 31 May 2002, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > Easy answer: Because the next planned changes for kate will make it
> > even huger than currently (konqui style sidebar, bigger BIC plugin
> > interface) which will let it head into the gideon/quanta direction, it
> > won't be a ide or webdesign app, but it will be a "killer" editor with
> > mdi (as current, but think of dropping the lame sdi approach) which
> > won't fit into kdebase, but fits well as seperated cvs module near
> > quanta and kdevelop. If you say I can do that in kdebae, fine, no
> > problem, but I think that is not the sense of kdebase (nor of
> > kdeutils).
>
> Well, then why not implement them first.  If it then is too big we still
> can outsource it, although I think on of the kdeextragear-* (or however
> the modules are called now) is enough.  I mean, currently the kate
> directory is 1.2 Mb, while kdebase is 61.5.  This isn't a bad proportion,
> so currently size is no issue.  If you wonder about the abilities of kate
> being too advanced for kdebase, well, so be it.  You can btw. also release
> separately from kdebase your own kate package, if you absolutely want, so
> this shouldn't be an issue as well.  I.e. right now I don't see the need
> to factor it out.  OTOH it's basically yours, so you kind of decide anyway
> ;)
K, have no probs with that, but it will break BC between 3.1 and 3.0.

>
>
> Ciao,
> Michael.

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Christoph "Crossfire" Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
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