Nepomuk as hard dependency in future?

[Till Adam]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 09:34:20 Alexis Ménard wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Tobias Koenig <tokoe at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:59:17PM +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Volker Krause wrote:
> >
> > Hej,
> >
> > > > Making Nepomuk integration optional is quite difficult once you start
> >
> > to
> >
> > > > depend on it for essential features of your application though. And
> > > > at least for KDE PIM, I expect that to happen. In fact, distibution
> > > > list resolution already depends on it in some cases.
> > >
> > > We didn't have a real conclusion here.
> > > So nepomuk stays optional for KDE 4.4 ?
> >
> > We need a hard dependency of nepomuk for kdepim in KDE 4.4,
> > otherwise some important parts of Akonadi won't work as expected
> > which will cast a damning light on Akonadi and the freshly ported
> > applications... So please mark it as hard dependency finally!
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Tobias
> >
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> :(
> 
> Rha again dependencies that we will need to compile by hand on embedded
> platform like maemo. They don't ship redland, neither raptor packages...
> 
> But it's nice for desktop though...

We (KDAB's KDE team) will be working to bring all of that infrastructure to 
Maemo and Windows CE, as part of our work on a mobile version of Akonadi. Of 
course we will strive to get as many of the dependencies as we can upstream 
into Maemo. I'm pretty sure that a lot of it is useful and desirable by other 
Maemo applications anyhow. This project will ramp up towards the end of this 
year and continue throughout 2010.

This one project won't solve all problems with kdelibs being big in terms of 
RAM and all the various helper processes, with lots of external dependencies, 
etc., but at least I can tell you that some skilled and dedicated folks will 
be attacking this problem space full-time and head-on soon. :)

Till

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