liboxygenhelper?

Sune Vuorela nospam at vuorela.dk
Sun Aug 9 22:05:47 BST 2009


On 2009-08-09, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On August 9, 2009 02:03:24 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
>> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 10:24:35 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
>> > Then please come up with a better solution to the problem. Do you want a
>> > separate module that can contain such abi-unstable libs with public
>> > headers?
>>
>> A separate module would start the next big discussion about module
>> dependencies. Couldn't we just put unstable libraries to e.g.
>> kdelibs/unstable/, with the explicit advice for packagers to group the
>> headers for these unstable libraries in separate packages which are not
>> required by any other package and therefore are only installed on explicit
>> request of the user.
>
> haven't we already had this discussion?
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/New_KDE_Library_API_Policy

The big difference as I see it is that oxygenhelper is not heading
"towards a stable abi/api", where as those libraries covered by that
link just needs one last cycle to be considered "stable as in kdelibs"

/Sune





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