[kde-edu]: Re: Preparation for the move to git

[Niko Sams]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 17:48, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
<annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2011 22:56:13 Peter Hedlund wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
>> > Hi KDE-Edu devels,
>> >
>> > Now that kdelibs and kdebase have been moved to git, the rest of KDE will
>> > soon follow. Ian "eean" kindly offered to write the rules for kdeedu,
>> > thanks to him!
>> >
>> > Before the move we need to ensure that all subprojects build standalone
>> > (without breaking the overall kdeedu build as well).
>> > KBruch maintainer Sebastian did that earlier today
>> > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeedu/kbruch/CMakeLists.txt?r1=1009581&r
>> > 2=1218675
>> >
>> > While it's easy for small projects, it is probably a bit more work for
>> > Marble which is more complex. Can the Marble team look into it quite
>> > quickly? Any problems can be discussed here and if necessary we'll ask
>> > for help. Same for KStars.
>> > We also need to take care of the libs as we discussed and noted on
>> > http://community.kde.org/KDE_Edu#Git_Migration
>>
>> Without cmake and library development skills it's definitely the handling
>> of the keduvocdocument lib that is giving me problems. Either we keep all
>> applications using it together or I/we need help making a proper library
>> out of it.
>>
>> Anne-Marie, how do you plan to handle KHangMan since it is one of the
>> programs using it?
> I think we need to make a proper lib out of it. Jeremy (jpwhiting) is better
> qualified than me to deal with it ;)
Well, the patch a posted about a month ago does exactly that.

I'm currently don't have a good internet connection, so I don't know when I
have time to polish it.

> What is more worrying me is the /data folder that Kanagram and KHangMan
> depends on. Debian has problem with making it a dependency as we got numerous
> bugreports where people did not have the data installed. I have no idea how to
> make it a CMake dependency (don't build KHangMan and Kanagram is data/ is not
> installed). Maybe it's not possible.
If data is it's own repository, it has to install itself with a cmake
config file. KHangMan can
then depend on it using cmake, like it would be a library.
If i remember correclty my patch did that.

Niko