Moving Baloo and Baloo-widgets into KDE SC
Àlex Fiestas
afiestas at kde.org
Tue Dec 24 21:04:39 GMT 2013
On Tuesday 24 December 2013 19:57:17 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> On Dienstag, 24. Dezember 2013 19:29:11 CEST, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 Dec 2013 13:06:55 Christoph Feck wrote:
> >> How does Baloo cooperate with Nepomuk? Note that we have ABI
> >> guarantees, so if the metadata is not shared between running instances
> >> of two services, but applications would have to be ported to the new
> >> ABI, then you cannot introduce Baloo in KDE 4.x, but only for KF5.
> >
> > I'm confused on how not sharing metadata = ABI break? Could you please
> > elaborate?
>
> If baloo can neither coexist with and talk to nepomuk, nor is 100% ABI
> compatible on clientlib (wrapper?) side, it cannot just replace nepomuk.
Workspace doesn't keep any kind of compatibility so we can do what we please
there.
In kdelibs, Nepomuk will continue working as it does right now, so
applications that support it will continue doing so.
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