[Kde-imaging] extragear/libs/kipi-plugins

[Tom Albers]

Op Friday 22 September 2006 11:25, schreef Gilles Caulier:
> On Friday 22 September 2006 11:20, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> > Alle 09:35, venerdì 22 settembre 2006, Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
> > > Seb,
> > >
> > > On my computer, i have installed current stable libgpod and .configure
> > > said taht all is ok. Of course, i cannot compile the plugin because we
> > > need the current svn implementation of libgpod.
> >
> > That isn't good imo, how can we release a new version if strongly depends
> > on an svn version of a library?
> > Isn't it possible to have a back compatibility, at least with the last
> > stable?
> >
> > When we write a plugin, imho, we should think that the plugins have
> > to be run into a stable machine in a stable distro, at least usually :).
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> Well, i have checked the libgpod library. current stable cannot be used
> because the API do not support pictures stuff.
>
> This is want mean than we need to wait the last libgpod stable version to
> include officially this plugin in kipi-plugins stable tarball. right ?

Same issues popup regulary. exiv2 was the same deal. Usually this problem is a 
problem which lies with the distros, they will pack the dependencies when it 
is important enough. 

But it would be nice to only rely on a stable version or at least a released 
version and have good configure checks.

Toma