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

[Klas Kalaß]

Am Samstag 13 März 2004 21:12 schrieb Jesper K. Pedersen:
> On Saturday 13 March 2004 21:05, Henrique Pinto wrote:
> | Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> | > I'm not yet compatible with KMail ;-)
> | >
> | > ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> | >
> | > 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).
>
> So in the case with kdemultimedia, does it get dependend on kdesupport?
Well, for some applications they need 3rd party libraries. And if those 3rd 
party libraries are in kdesupport, you can say that it depends on kdesupport 
(given you want the application that depends on the lib).

The taglib stuff already showed the problems that will arise if we allow 
libraries in the Extra Gear modules: amarok made keg-1 depend on keg-2 and 
kdemultimedia, juk made kdemultimedia depend on keg-2, and AFAIK kmplayer 
from keg-2 has a runtime dependency on kdemultimedia for arts control. Yay.

I do not oppose a keg-libs module, but I don't see the need for it either 
since we already have kdesupport.

So where exactly is the problem with putting libkipi in kdesupport?

Regards,
  Klas
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