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

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

On Saturday 13 March 2004 21:47, Klas Kalaß wrote:
| 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?
I don't know if there are any problems with that except that I have no idea 
about how that works ;-)

I'll look into that.
Thanks
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