[Kde-extra-gear] Evaluation of the extragear tarball releases.

[Charles Connell]

On Saturday 12 January 2008 09:44:36 am Tom Albers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the rc2 and for the final release we've been creating tarballs of
> extragear applications. I've taken the time to evaluate this based on
> feedback with different packers. I will try to keep it short and to the
> point.
>
> 1)
> The tarballs are now pretty much ok, the software to create them is
> committed in playground[1], so everyone can make them, when I'm
> unavailable. The only point is to include the translated documentation in
> the tarball. It's not done, because there are currently no examples to work
> with.
>
> 2)
> The applications currently packaged[2] needs work. I discovered the
> following problems:
>
> Ok: kgraphviewer, kphotoalbum(?), kmldonkey, kopete-cryptography, kaider,
> rsibreak These applications seem maintained and ok. Although when kaider
> moves to trunk for the 4.1 release, there won't be any updates up to the
> release of 4.1.
>
> Unmaintained: kcoloredit, kfax, kiconedit, kpovmodeler, ligature
> These applications seem unmaintained (please correct me if I'm wrong!), I
> would like to remove them from the keg-release project. I would even like
> to suggest to Helio to contact the maintainers and remove them from
> extragear. I can do that too if wanted.
>
> Own release schedule: ktorrent
> KTorrent has made his own beta release between te rc2 and final keg
> tarballs we created. I think we should disable ktorrent from our release
> process for now, untill they indicate they want to join again.
>
> During the removal of kdeaddons, some parts indicated that they should be
> part of this project, I just can not recall which one that was. It could be
> konq-plugins, but does anyone now the state of those?
>
> 3)
> One of the bigger issues is the versioning. Because they are released with
> the kde release the internal version number of the application should be
> bumped as well. I would like to suggest to use the same numbering as the
> kde release they are part of. I've to discuss with some people how to do
> that, but I can add something like 'setVersion(4.0.1)' to a cmake file, and
> try to use that in the kaboutdata and when it's not set use the 'old'
> value.  Any ideas (or help with the execution) would be great.
>
> Conclusion from my part is that we should continue this project and improve
> above points. Any comments about all the above is welcome.
>
> I will proceed with above in +/- two weeks if there are no objections.
>
> Best,
>
> Toma
>
> [1] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/utils/createtarball/
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/extragearReleases

Is there a reason that Kopete Cryptography is not tarballed in 
ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.0.0/src/extragear? It was put out with the 
RC's. I worked very hard on that and I want to make sure that it gets into 
the hands of users.

- Charles Connell