[kde-edu]: KVocTrain

Cornelius Schumacher schumacher at kde.org
Tue Feb 24 16:16:42 GMT 2004


On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:40, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Em Ter 24 Fev 2004 13:49, Cornelius Schumacher escreveu:
> > You can't move knewstuff from kdepim to kdelibs right now, because kdepim
> > HEAD has to compile with kdelibs 3.2.
>
> I see. And kdepim-3.3 is scheduled for when exactly? As a math guy, I like
> the x + 13 notation, however I don't have enough insight into pim
> development to know x :-)

If we would know the value of x we wouldn't write x ;-)

> > Is it a problem to temporarily have the dependency of kdeedu on kdepim?
> > Before the next kdeedu release we can see how to solve the problem.
>
> My suggestion is to compile the knewstuff in kdepim only if not found in
> kdelibs (i.e. if kdelibs <= 3.2). This way, the workaround only has to be
> done once. This will require knewstuff API compatibility until kdepim-3.3
> but ensuring this is a small issue.

It's not a very satisfying solution, but if you take the responsibilty to make 
sure that kdepim compiles with kdelibs 3.2 and the two KNewStuff copies stay 
in sync it's ok with me.

> The problem I see is that if apps not in kdeedu start using knewstuff, each
> will have to declare a dependency on kdepim, or have their own version of
> it. Both scenarios will lead into a mess.

That's right.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>




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