[Kde-extra-gear] A few questions about KDE Extra Gear

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Klas Kalass wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 00:36 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
> 
>>Hi !
>>
>>I successfully imported Gwenview to KDE Extra Gear and started working
>>
>>>from here. During this, a few questions came to my mind :
>>
>>* How do I set the version of my application ?
>>I previously used configure.in.in to do this, but there's no such file
>>anymore :-)
> 
> AFAIK there is nothing wrong with having a configure.in.in in your application 
> subdir, so just readd it and make sure it does not clash with the main 
> configure.in.in.

Did it some other way : just added the version in main.cpp (ugly, but it 
works)


>>* Is there a specific area to store distribution specific files such as
>>the debian directory or RPM spec files ?
> 
> Not yet. Do think that would be a good idea? I thought they would go 
> underneath the application main directory as they normally would.
> But do we need to centralize everything? I think that we should only 
> centralize where we want to reach certain groups within the KDE Project 
> (i18n). I do not know if centralizing distribution specific directories would 
> have any benefits.

No problem, I was just asking before importing in order to avoid dead 
directories (I love CVS ;-) )


>>* The Debian packager wrote a man file for Gwenview (this is required by
>>Debian). Where can I store it ?
> 
> I don't know that to be honest :)
> I think the question is: Do we want man files to go into the translation 
> pipeline (provided the translators are interested in translating the 
> corresponding app that is...) or should we keep those seperated in favour of 
> "proper" KDE style documentation? 
> If we want the latter than just add it underneath your main app directory 
> (probably in a subdir) and make sure it installs correctly.


I will go for the latter, thanks for your answers

   Aurélien