[kde-edu]: Re: Cantor and KAlgebra

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Sat May 14 21:03:12 CEST 2011


On Saturday, May 14, 2011 03:38:45 PM Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Alexander Rieder
> <alexanderrieder at gmail.com
> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> > 
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> 
> I'll look into this this week. That needs to be done asap, it will be
> needed for rocs and kdevelop too.

And I'm still failing to link kalgebra here, but it seems that's a silyness of 
opensuse.

> Aleix


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