KArchive for Qt4

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2012-11-19, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't have a link to 'you should not inherit sonames from other
>> modules'. but it sholud kind of be common sense as we also see in
>> various areas of current KDE land where e.g. libkmailprivate from kdepim
>> 4.4 is not having a matching SONAME, but gets the SONAME from the
>> kdelibs it is built against.
>
> I think I misread what you wrote before. You meant 'kde modules', not 'ecm 
> modules' AKA cmake files or macros.

No. I actually meant do not inherit SONAME from anywhere. including
another kde module or a ecm module or cmake.

> I'm not opposed to changing that (I think Alex wrote a replacement macro 
> already), but I don't think just renaming the macro makes it more 
> discoverable. If you didn't know the macro existed you'd still just be 
> looking at a '${FOO_VERSION}' that comes from somewhere and start looking 
> for a use of a macro with version in the name.

I agree that it is not a prefect fix, but definately a improvement. It
also helps to show that it originates *somewhere* inside this directory
structure and not somewhere else.

> Anyway - Yes, the ecm API is not perfect yet and not ready for consumption 
> by anyone yet. That will come though and I don't think it's something we 
> need to spend a lot of time worrying about or discussing just yet.

We do need to start to actually use it at least amongst powerusers to
ensure that we can actually commit to a nice source compatibility once
we are at a release.

/Sune