RFC: New Module kdesdklibs?

[Ben Boeckel]

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Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 24.07.09 00:49:27, Matt Williams wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> No, kdevplatform contains libraries to build an IDE, 
kapptemplate is by no
> means an IDE, not to mention that this wouldn't solve the 
problem for
> komparepart and its interface as kdesdk cannot depend on 
kdevplatform and I
> don't want kdevplatform to be kdesdk2 or something like that.
> 
> Andreas
Why not have kdevplatform depend on kdesdk? Or are the templates 
not a strong enough reason?

Maybe recommend packagers split kdesdk with a kdesdk-templates 
subpackage?

- --Ben
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