New module for KPovModeler

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Wed Jan 8 19:25:36 GMT 2003


On Samstag, 4. Januar 2003 17:40, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 04 January 2003 00:40, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Fre, 03 Jan 2003, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > On kde-policies I proposed that application with more than 500 source
> > > files should use a module of their own while smaller applications could
> > > be part of a kdeextragear module.
> >
> > huh? counting source files is an interesting measurement :)
> >
> > > Since kpovmodeler has 226 source files, I suggest to move it to
> > > kdeextragear-2.
> >
> > That makes the extragear an unorganized mess, similiar to kdenonbeta,
> > probably just worse.
>
> Unlike kdenonbeta, the applications in kdeextragear are maintained, and
> unlike kdenonbeta, there is a limit on the number of applications in each
> kdeextragear module. I think that those two factors are sufficient to
> prevent it from becoming a mess.
>
> For comparison, k3b in kdeextragear-1 has 234 source files.
>
> The number 500 is of course rather arbitrary, if people prefer to have many
> seperate CVS modules one could put the treshold at 200.
>

I very much agree with Waldo on this. I can't see what makes kpovmodeler more
special or more interesting or whatever than k3b. And we created kdeextragear
for exactly that kind of application: well maintained and too special for 
general distribution.

Greetings, Stephan



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