libmm-qt moved to frameworks/modemmanager-qt

[Jan Grulich]

On Saturday 04 of April 2015 10:51 David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 March 2015 23:37:22 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 31 de març de 2015, a les 22:32:10, Jan Grulich va escriure:
> > > On Tuesday 31 of March 2015 21:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > El Dimarts, 31 de març de 2015, a les 13:15:30, Jan Grulich va 
escriure:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > we have finally moved libmm-qt library to frameworks and renamed it
> > > > > to
> > > > > modemmanager-qt. It's now going to be released together with KDE
> > > > > Frameworks
> > > > > 5 and not with Plasma 5 as it was until now. The upcoming release is
> > > > > not
> > > > > ABI/API compatible with the previous releases, so if you are going
> > > > > to
> > > > > keep
> > > > > Plasma 5.2.x you need to keep also libmm-qt in the version released
> > > > > together with it.
> > > > 
> > > > Are the two things at least co-installable?
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately no, but we can maybe provide an updated tarball with
> > > plasma-
> > > nm-5.2.2 which works with the new version of mm-qt.
> > 
> > Either that or you make sure David puts a big fat warning when releasing
> > the new frameworks version.
> > 
> > Ideally what you should do is don't break backwards compatibility, and if
> > you're going to break it, just call it V2, if i was a packager i'd be
> > pretty unhappy you've put such a burden on me now, having to forget when
> > to exchange some packages depending on some other package that also
> > depends on some other package probably.
> 
> So what is happening in the end? I'm making the release today if all goes
> well, and the above looks ... messy.

I would like to have it released now. I know it's a bit messy, but it was our 
last chance to rework the library and change it properly. The only thing what 
needs to be changed in plasma-nm are 2 signal signatures, so we can just 
release an updated version.

Regards,
Jan
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Jan Grulich 
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o
jgrulich at redhat.com