KDE inclusion

[Luigi Toscano]

Michael Reeves ha scritto:
> Sorry meant this to go to everyone.
> 
> I did this based off what Ubuntu was using at the time.  The repo is here
> https://bitbucket.org/reporter123/kdiff3
> <https://bitbucket.org/reporter123/kdiff3>. Master is currently set the
> require CMake 3.1 but as of this moment that is just a number change. My
> concern here was C++11 feature dectect which is not implemented in earlier
> versions. Right now that is not critical. I was not aware of the parallel
> effort at https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/thomasfischer/kdiff3.git/log/?h=kf5
> <https://cgit.kde.org/scratch/thomasfischer/kdiff3.git/log/?h=kf5>. Command
> line parsing is fully operational on mine. To my knowledge it is fully
> operational and I have been using it on my machine. I generally work with two
> way comparisons.

Adding explicitly Thomas (I don't remember if he reads this list).

Thomas, some context below or better on:
https://marc.info/?t=151566728700006&r=1&w=2

> 
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 6:24 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org
> <mailto:aacid at kde.org>> wrote:
> 
>     El dijous, 11 de gener de 2018, a les 12:15:15 CET, Kevin Funk va escriure:
>     > On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:06:36 CET Michael Reeves wrote:
>     > > I have a version of kdiff3 that I ported to kf5. I like to what build
>     > > requirements kf5 as a whole has. Also what would be the process for being
>     > > considered for inclusion in kde?
>     >
>     > Heya,
>     >
>     > Note: kdiff3 right now is hosted & developed on SourceForge.
>     >
>     > I'd love to see kdiff3 being adopted by KDE again (it former was KDE
>     > extragear if I understood correctly). kdiff3 is a super useful tool -- and
>     > right now development has stalled a bit.
>     >
>     > Talked to Joachim (the original author) a few weeks ago, where he stated he
>     > just doesn't have the time maintaining it anymore, really. I've CC'd Joachim
>     > so he can tell us whether he's okay with having kdiff3 developed further
>     > under the KDE umbrella.
> 
>     I guess this is the most important question, if we can keep using the kdiff3
>     name under's Joachim's blessing or we have to "fork it" and find a new name.
> 
>     Cheers,
>       Albert
> 
>     >
>     > I don't really know the process of having it integrated either. I'll leave
>     > that to others.
>     >
>     > Kudos for doing the KF5 port!
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Kevin
> 

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Luigi