kio-extras and the KF5/KF6 period

[David Redondo]

Am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2023, 00:02:18 CEST schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> kio-extras provides plugins for kio.
> 
> So KF5 applications want a KF5 kio-extras and KF6 applications want a KF6
> kio- extras.
> 
> If we're going to support a period on which we ship both Kf5 and KF6 based
> applications we need to:
> 
> Make sure kf5 and kf6 are coinstallable.
> 
> a) release two tarballs, one for each KF
> b) release one tarball that compiles both for kf5 and kf6
> c) just release the kf6 tarball, stop releasing the kf5 tarball but ask
> distributions to still install it
> 
> 

Harald and I prototyped another solution to build a Qt
 5 and Qt 6 version out of the same repo and employed it on
plasma-integration: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/
merge_requests/91
This has the advantage of having the code for both versions in 
the same place and the Qt5 version being not stuck on some old
 version. Also the translations can be shared automatically since 
they use the same catalog.
There is one case  where Qt uses unversioned targets and one
unversioned ecm variable but cadavidn be easily worked around.

David