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

[Klas Kalaß]

Am Samstag 13 März 2004 21:52 schrieb 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 ;-)
you should probably ask sysadmin at kde.org or kde-core-devel at kde.org if it is ok 
and then simply import it in kdesupport like you would with keg :-)

Greetings,
  Klas
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