[Kde-extra-gear] extragear insanity again

Tom Albers tomalbers at kde.nl
Mon Sep 12 17:07:25 CEST 2005


Op maandag 12 september 2005 15:30, schreef George Staikos:
>    At aKademy I decided to check out extragear graphics to build Kst.  The
> checkout was, IIRC, over 200MB.  Can I ask again why we don't put a
> separate toplevel and admin on each app individually?  We could still keep
> the toplevel structure in a sense:
>
> extragear/
> extragear/graphics
> extragear/graphics/digikam {/admin/ configure.in.in etc}
> extragear/graphics/kst {/admin/ configure.in.in etc}
>
> Then if a user or developer only wants one app, it can easily be checked
> out with one svn command and 150MB of other stuff doesn't come with it. 
> The only downside is that toplevel updates have to be propagated to each
> app.  This is a small amount of work and small price to pay for making
> extragear MUCH more useful.
>
> If there are users who want to build whole subtrees, we could put a simple
> toplevel makefile that just recurses into subdirectories.


Why not co -N extragear/graphics and co extragear/kst en build? Nearly the 
same?

And how about the doc folder?

Tom


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