Adding ThreadWeaver libraries to kdelibs

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:35, Mirko Boehm wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I think ThreadWeaver is ready for prime time. If you haven't followed it:
> ThreadWeaver is a job queue that had advanced capabilities for automatic
> scheduling of application operations. As far as I know, kdevelop, koffice
> and kdepim are using it or plan to use it as soon as it is commonly
> available.
>
> ThreadWeaver is developed in kdenonbeta at the moment, and usually snapshot
> and point-released when it reaches a certain new useful state. It is
> tested, known to be stable, and comes with a set of unit tests.
>
> I would like to suggest to add the two main libraries - the Weaver library
> that contains the job queue and surrounding classes, and the WeaverGui
> library that holds everything that depends on QtGui, and the accompanying
> unit tests, into kdelibs. I guess it will be best to import the snapshot
> point releases into kdelibs, to maintain a state where everything works and
> is tested, and update as needed. I will take care of the updating.
>
> As for the rest, I would like to move it to kdesdk. Unstable versions
> should be kept and tagged and merged as needed.
>
> Please let me know what you think about it.
>
> Take care,
> --Mirko.

I would argue that development of threadweaver needs to occur in kdelibs 
rather than merging snapshot point releases into it. Do you really want to 
continuously maintain two separate code branches and keep the code between 
them in sync?
-- 
Matt