Nepomuk as hard dependency in future?

Evgeny Egorochkin phreedom.stdin at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 15:21:53 BST 2009


В сообщении от Суббота 17 октября 2009 13:48:16 автор Peter Penz написал:
> On Saturday, 17. October 2009 12:35:04 Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> > В сообщении от Суббота 17 октября 2009 13:19:58 автор Peter Penz написал:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Is there a chance that Nepomuk gets a hard dependency for KDE 4.4 or
> > > KDE 4.5 (maybe implicitly as Akonadi anyhow will require it)?
> > >
> > > If this is not the case: Any ideas how to deal with interfaces like
> > > above, where binary compatibility is a must for kdelibs classes?
> >
> > Being one of Nepomuk guys, I'm supposed to be happy about Nepomuk being
> > an essential part of kdelibs.
> >
> > However, what happens to apps that run outside of KDE such as KOffice or
> > Amarok on Windows or MacOS?
> 
> In this case Nepomuk::ResourceManager::instance()->init() might just return
>  a failure. I did not mean that Nepomuk should be a hard dependency in the
>  sense of "always turned on", just a hard dependency as library (it still
>  is required that applications and widgets check whether Nepomuk is
>  running).

Then, since the lib is pretty small, I guess it's ok.

-- Evgeny




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