[Kde-graphics-devel] New libkipi version and KDE release schedule

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimecres, 15 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:15:18, Victor Dodon va escriure:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El Dimecres, 15 d'agost de 2012, a les 12:20:02, Victor Dodon va escriure:
> >> Hello to all! My name is Victor Dodon. I am a GSoC student this year
> >> and I work on the project "Porting libkipi, kipi-plugin s to KDE-XML
> >> GUI' [1].
> >> 
> >> Currently I finished patching libkipi (on the git branch
> >> development/2.0.0), digikam kipi interface (on git branch
> >> development/3.0.0) and I almost finished finished patching
> >> kipi-plugins (on the git branch development/3.0.0). This version of
> >> libkipi (2.0.0) breaks the binary compatibility, that's why I would
> >> like to know when it would be good to move the code to the git/master?
> >> It would be possible to include libkipi 2.0.0 with the 4.10 release of
> >> KDE SC? On [2] there is no information about the timeline of KDE SC
> >> 4.10.
> >> 
> >> It remains to talk with the developers of the other kipi host
> >> applications: Gwenview, KSnapshot, KPhotoAlbum to patch these
> >> applications.
> > 
> > How different is the API? I.e. how much porting work is needed?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> 
> If you refer to kipi-plugins, then today I will finish patching them.
> If you refer to other kipi host applications, the api is not very much
> different, but there are some adjustments that must be made to the way
> plugins are loaded and to the ui files of these applications. With the
> experience from digiKam this must not take very long(maybe 2 days). I
> tried to maintain changes internal to libkipi as much as possible.

Ok, 2 days does not sound like a lot.

But have you contacted those parties? Moving the floor below their feet 
without prior warning might not be a "polite" thing to do.

Regarding when it could go to master, i guess it could go there now, if you 
have libkipi maintainer agreement and if you correctly fix the soversioning, 
etc issues. But as said it'd be much more interesting if you contact a few of 
the authors of the programs using libkipi and get their input on both the API 
changes and how much time they are going to need to port their apps.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Victor.
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