New module for KPovModeler

David Faure dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
Thu Jan 9 10:20:39 GMT 2003


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On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:12, Klas Kalass wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2003 11:03 schrieb David Faure:
> > On Thursday 09 January 2003 10:52, Klas Kalass wrote:
> > > AFAIR it was also about the small user group that kpovmodeller has. I
> > > think that the question is how specialized an application in a KDE module
> > > should be. kdegraphics is released as one package, but I am pretty sure
> > > that only a very small percentage of people who want kdegraphics also
> > > want kpovmodeler. The other apps are relevant for "normal" desktop use
> > > (fax, scan, file viewing,....), but kpovmodeler is only relevant for
> > > people wanting to make 3D models.
> >
> > You're confusing CVS modules and binary packages.
> > Developers/translators/artists/... see the former, users see the latter.
> >
> > It's currently) up to the distributors to split the source tarballs
> > (cvs modules) into binary packages.
> hmmm - KDE does release the package "kdegraphics-3.1.0.tar.bz2" containing all 
> applications from the modules, doesn't it?

You're right, there are also 'users of source tarballs'. So I think the solution
is splitting at release time - more work for the release dude :(

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