[Kde-extra-gear] Fwd: Re: libkipi in keg3

[Henrique Pinto]

Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> I'm not yet compatible with KMail ;-)
> 
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> Subject: Re: libkipi in keg3
> Date: Saturday 13 March 2004 20:35
> From: "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at kde.org>
> To: Klas Kalaß <klas.kalass at gmx.de>
> 
> On Saturday 13 March 2004 20:20, you wrote:
> | Am Samstag 13 März 2004 11:30 schrieb Aurelien Gateau:
> | > Hi all!
> | >
> | > I'm currently chatting with Jesper from Kimdaba on IRC about libkipi, KDE
> | > Image Plugin Interface. This is a joint effort from Digikam, Kimdaba,
> | > Showimg and Gwenview to share image plugins. We are planning to develop
> | > this on keg3 which seems to be the best place for it right now. Klass,
> | > can you give us the green light?
> |
> | I am not very keen on the idea to put libraries in the KDE Extra Gear.
> | Having libraries in the Extra Gear leads to strange dependency situations,
> | as has happened with taglib. No other module should depend on any keg-*
> | module. Taglib has moved to kdesupport now.
> |
> | Maybe you should ask on core-devel if you can put libkipi in kdesupport,
> | too.
> 
> How is kdesupport shipped?

kdesupport is not shipped. Things there should be released independly, 
as it happens with KEG. As I understand it, it is meant for libraries 
(to avoid problems such as kdemultimedia being dependent on extra-gear).

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	Henrique Pinto
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