libmm-qt moved to frameworks/modemmanager-qt

[David Edmundson]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at kde.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, April 04, 2015 12:18:45 PM Jan Grulich wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Or you could release the framework just before Plasma 5.3 and have
> plasma-nm
> depend on that version? It would certainly make it easier for packagers to
> handle the situation :)
>
> We need a release for the beta (next week), but it to be only used by
people running the beta till final.

David

> >
> > Regards,
> > Jan
>
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