Request to remove kformula from kdelibs

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Jan 5 16:43:49 GMT 2009


On 05.01.09 17:23:49, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sunday 4. January 2009 22.48.05 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > hereby I request to remove kformula from kdelibs.
> >
> > The kformula in kdelibs is a copy of the one from KOffice, which is
> > alpha-quality and is not meant to be released. Second to that it causes
> > problems with KOffice installations.
> > It's very important to do this as fast as possible, so that it doesn't get
> > released with 4.2
> >
> > kformula should be either continue as part of KOffice or be moved to
> > playground.
> 
> I'd like to add my vote to this.
 
> * I heard via the grapevine that the reason for this move is that some apps 
> want to use this codebase; which I think is great.

Its actually already used by kalgebra, so you should talk to the kdeedu
people about this first.

>  More users means more 
> fixes, right?  So far the last work was done on Mar 15 2008, so we could 
> serious use the manpower.

The svn log shows the last real activities on the kdelibs side from end of
september, are you sure there's not been some fixes in kdelibs that weren't
backported to koffice?

Also I can't see any evidence that the person that moved kformula to
kdelibs has "vanished", the last commit from him on "his" pet project is
from beginning of december.

Andreas

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