RFC: New Module kdesdklibs?

[Matt Williams]

On Friday 24 July 2009 00:22:42 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've got a small problem between kdevelop and kapptemplate (from kdesdk).
> Both have a wizard to create a new code-project from some form of template.
> Both apps use the same template format, so they can basically share the
> templates. They don't yet use the same code for the wizard (but very
> similar copies) as there's no base-library yet for both to depend on. Now
> especially the common-template format puts us into a problem, KDevelop only
> provides KDE4 application templates if kdesdk is installed. If kdesdk is
> missing there will only be templates for basic CMake projects.
>
> Its obviously not possible to have the templates in both modules as they're
> installed into the same place and hence conflict with each other.
>
> Due to that and the possible code-sharing I'm thinking about having a new
> module kdesdklibs which provides a library for building the application
> wizard as well as the templates themselves. Another item that could be
> moved into this module is the interface class from kompare to allow easier
> access to the komparepart (currently requires a build-time dependency on
> kdesdk) - I've just suggested that to Kevin Kofler the kompare
> maintainer to see what he thinks about that.
>
> I've also thought about just having a new lib+data inside kdelibs, but that
> module is already big enough IMHO and shouldn't be made bigger for just two
> apps with rather specific use-cases.
>
> Opinions?
>
> Oh and of course I volunteer to act as module coordinator for that module
> and it'll directly follow the KDE release cycle :)

Would it not be simpler to move kapptemplate to kdevplatform? It's as good a 
fit there as it is in kdesdk.

Matt Williams
http://milliams.com