[kde-edu]: Re: Cantor and KAlgebra

[Alexander Rieder]

On Saturday 14 May 2011 09:44:58 Uwe Fechner wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> 
> I fixed bug 258286 of cantor today (well, in a way, that works
> for me, probably there is a better way).
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258286

thanks for looking into this. I've replied to the report on bugs.kde.org.

> 
> But I still have two questions:
> 
> a) After recompiling cantor I have to reinstall it.
>    (sudo make install)
>    How can I make cantor recognize new versions of the plugins
>    without reinstalling?
It should be possible to do this. Unfortunately I don't really know how to set 
this up.The plugin loading of cantor is handled by the kdelibs, so you might 
look for some documentation, on adding custom plugin directories to kde.
Maybe someone else on this list knows more?

> 
> b) How can I install the KAlgebra? The plugin is not available
>    within the self-compiled cantor version. (I got the cantor
>    sources from git).
I assume you mean the KAlgebra backend for Cantor?
This is a problem that came up when we split the kdeedu repository and 
converted to git, the code for KAlgebra is still there, but it isn't build 
anymore, as the "build_kalgebra" flag is never set anymore. You could possibly 
remove the check in the src/backends/CMakeLists.txt and then make sure that 
the needed files are found somehow.

For a general solution, we'd have to find a way to solve the dependency 
problems between the two applications. Anyone an idea how to do this best?

regards,
Alexander Rieder