Review of Codevis (ie - Making Codevis a KDE Project)

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 18:29 Carl Schwan <carl.schwan at gnupg.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 17, 2023 11:18:24 AM CEST Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> > Hello Fellow KDE Devs,
> >
> > I'm here, formally asking for a review of the Codevis project, to move
> > forward and make it a part of kdesdk.
>
> Very cool project, I was amazed by the presentation of it from tarcisio at
> Akademy.
>
> > Currently we are using parts of KWdigetsAddons as a submodule
> > Most things that are related to buildsystems will be moved to craft /
> > kdesrc-build as soon as possible, right now we rely in conan for windows
> > and mac, plus a hand-written build script that downloads and builds llvm
> > for those platforms.
> >
> > Things that I know that are out of KDE Accordance:
> > - Translation System (uses Qt's tr() system)
>
> This isn't an issue and we have other KDE projects using the tr() system.
> But
> if you want to port to ki18n, it's best to do it now since you don't seems
> to
> have any translations yet.
>
> > - Settings System (it uses my own configuration parser that resembles
> QML)
>
> Yeah probably best to use kconfigxt or make your configuration parser part
> of
> kconfigxt next gen ;)
>
> > - Folder naming specification (follows the lakosian naming specification)
>
> I don't think we have any folder (and file) naming specification in kde,
> or at
> least if we have one, it varies a lot between projects.
>
> > - CI used is based on Gitlab, but fails on KDE
>
> When trying to build it on my laptop it failed, due to the requirement of
> clang 16. This might also be an issue with the kde ci on tumbleweed.


Carl,

There’s no requirement for clang16 (I build with 15, tarcisio builds with
14, the previous ci had 13, I believe)

Mind if you share the build logs?

Best




>
> > The current repository of Codevis is:
> > https://invent.kde.org/tcanabrava/codevis
> >
> > The KDE developers on this project are me, tarcisio fischer (that
> presented
> > Codevis on Akademy), and Richard Dale.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Tomaz
>
>
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