removing Eigen from kdesupport?

[Michael Pyne]

On Sunday 21 June 2009 13:11:05 Benoit Jacob wrote:
> (reposting from kde-devel after suggestion that this belongs rather to
> this list)
>
> Hi,
>
> As you may remember, Eigen development is no longer happening in kdesupport
> [1].
>
> KDE 4.3 was so far relying on the development version of Eigen, but
> this is no longer the case: we just released the stable Eigen 2.0.3
> which has all the improvements needed for KDE 4.3 (namely for
> kdeedu/step).
>
> So from now on, the recommended way to build KDE 4.3 (and KOffice)
> should be to use Eigen 2.0.3. The version of Eigen that's left in
> kdesupport should be removed (it is the state of the development
> branch as it was when we moved).
>
> My question is: do you want me to make these changes NOW ? (That
> means, besides removing kdesupport/eigen2, updating all the CMakeLists
> messages to point to Eigen 2.0.3 instead of kdesupport).

I'd say make the changes now, as people who have been keeping up to date from 
kdesupport would presumably already have eigen installed.

People installing eigen for the first time should use the 2.0.3 release even 
if it's not packaged by the distro yet, no?  It would be more convenient for 
people using build scripts to convert 2.0.3 over but I think that's more work 
than necessary (and besides, just prolongs the inevitable at this point).

Of course others may have different thoughts. :)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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