The Nepomuk Situation

[Vishesh Handa]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> El Dimecres, 2 de maig de 2012, a les 12:14:00, Ivan Cukic va escriure:
> > > The first solution -
> > > * Remove nepomuk from kdelibs and kde-runtime
> >
> > +1 This is what has been done with kactivities. Instead of having it in
> > kdelibs and runtime, it is now all in one repository.
> >
> > The only difference here is that nepomuk is not in libs/experimental like
> > libkactivities was.
>
> This is a huge difference, we *promise* to keep SC and BC of our libs,
> doing
> the first solution would totally go against our promises.
>

Right.

We could maintain BC and SC by not touching the kdelibs nepomuk, and just
making nepomuk-core a dependency of kdelibs. But that would result in both
nepomuk-core and kdelibs installing the same headers.


> Cheers,
>  Albert
>
> >
> > I think that this would help KF5 efforts since applications would start
> > porting early to the new libraries. Again, the only downside being the
> fact
> > that libnepomuk will not be able to stay binary (or api) back-compatible
> due
> > to uses of KUrl and similars (it it hasn't already been removed in the
> > nepomuk-core)
> >
> > Cheerio,
> > Ivan
> >
> > > * Make nepomuk-core a compile time dependency for kdelibs
> > > * Including the missing gui code into nepomuk-core
> > >
> > > The second solution is -
> > > * nepomuk-core installs the headers in nepomuk2
> > > * the library already has a different name, so there are no clashes
> over
> > > there
> > > * kde-runtime/nepomuk is removed
> > > * nepomuk-core is added as a dependency of kde-runtime
> > >
> > > The problem with the second solution is that all applications using
> > > Nepomuk
> > > will also need to depend on nepomuk-core. So far the list includes -
> > > Dolphin, KDE-pim and Telepathy (kinda)
> > >
> > > What do you guys think?
> > >
> > > [1] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/nepomuk-core
> > > [2]
> > >
> http://trueg.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/nepomuk-2-0-and-the-data-management-
> > > se rvice/
>



-- 
Vishesh Handa
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