Moving the proxy model test suite to kdesupport?

[Stephen Kelly]

Hi,

I'd really like to get this resolved and finished so I'll try again to find 
what the problem is.

I'm not certain it was clear before that this is not a dependency for any 
shipped application. The only useful reason to install this is for local 
debugging in a simple way. 

Tom Albers wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:41:27 +0300, Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org> wrote:
>> If you don't want to guarantee BC then it does not belong into
>> kdesupport IMO. kdesupport contains dependencies for kdelibs and all of
>> those really should keep BC.
> 
> Indeed, definitely not kdesupport.
> 
>> If you do not want to guarantee BC then
>> keep it in a private location, do not install it anywhere and have
>> everybody who wants to use it copy it. You could move it to kdesdk
>> (without installing it).
> 
> Or extragear or playground.
 
Neither extragear nor playground would work as kdeui/tests/proxymodeltestapp 
depends on it. So it needs to be in kdelibs or a dependency of kdelibs.

/trunk/tests wouldn't work for the same reason.

So in the interest of moving this along, this is what I want to do:

install the proxymodeltestsuite library if it is built (it is only built if 
KDE4_BUILD_TESTS is true).
install the headers to ${INSTALL_LOCATION}/private
not keep BC in the library.
not make the library part of ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBRARIES}
not have the library packaged
not have any applications link to it or use it

If an application developer wants to debug an application (like kmail) they 
can locally add a link to the library and that's it. No application will 
ever ship which links to it, so I don't see any reason to version it or 
maintain .so numbers.

Is there any reason I'm not aware of that the above would not work?


All the best,

Steve.