libkgeomap

[Gilles Caulier]

If kdegraphics/libs is possible, it will be the best, because all
other Photo Management shared libs are already in this module
(libkipi, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkface, etc...).

2014-12-21 17:50 GMT+01:00 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> El Diumenge, 21 de desembre de 2014, a les 23:26:04, Ben Cooksley va escriure:
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> > El Diumenge, 14 de desembre de 2014, a les 18:57:44, Tobias Leupold va
>> >
>> > escriure:
>> >> Hi list!
>> >>
>> >> recently, I requested to move libkface from extragear/libs to to
>> >> kdegraphics/libs, because KPhotoAlbum began to use it as the first
>> >> non-Digikam program. This has been done in the meantime and now, we have
>> >> a
>> >> Digikam- independent libkface release to be found in
>> >> unstable/applications
>> >> (which can be used by distributors to create Digikam-independent libkface
>> >> packages). Thanks again for the move :-)
>> >>
>> >> Recently, we started to use another library from Digikam in KPhotoAlbum,
>> >> libkgeomap. Would it be possible (of course after some review etc.) to do
>> >> the same with this library, for the same reasons? Probably,
>> >> kdegraphics/libs would not be the right place for libkgeomap, as it
>> >> depends
>> >> on Marble, but kde-edu.
>> >>
>> >> Gilles Caulier from Digikam recently suggested that I asked for that,
>> >> because apparently a lot of patching has been done to libkgeomap so that
>> >> a
>> >> stand-alone library release would be possible. I'm sure that the
>> >> libkgeomap
>> >> maintainers (esp. Gilles Caulier) will gladly change what has to be
>> >> changed
>> >> to get an independent release, and we would get the same benefits of it
>> >> as
>> >> the libkface move made.
>> >>
>> >> What do you think?
>> >
>> > Noone else has an opinion at all?
>>
>> This seems like a sound move from my perspective - ensuring libraries
>> get regular releases is important for both future users of the library
>> and ensuring users get the fixes which are made over time without
>> having to do a feature upgrade.
>
> Does someone has a suggestion for a module for this new library?
>
> Cheers,
>   Albert
>
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> >   Albert
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>> >> Cheers, Tobias
>