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

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On Friday 04 February 2011 07:59:34 Niko Sams wrote:
> 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=100958
> >> > 1&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
Hi Niko,

Thanks for the reply!
We'll then work from your patch, thanks a lot for your work!

Anne-Marie