[Kde-imaging] [Digikam-devel] extragear/libs

[Achim Bohnet]

On Saturday, 27. January 2007, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> Alle 14:13, sabato 27 gennaio 2007, Tom Albers ha scritto:
> > Op za 27 jan 2007 12:01 schreef u:
> > > Le Vendredi 26 Janvier 2007 19:14, Caulier Gilles(UNTRUSTED, sender is 
> > > <kde-imaging-bounces-+caulier.gilles=kdemail.net at kde.org>) a ளூcrit :
> > > > And look like ShowImg use a copy of the digiKam core Exiv2 interface
> > > > (DMetadata class) :
> > > >
> > > > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/showimg/showimg/metadata/dme
> > > >tadata.cpp?rev=595799&view=auto
> > > 
> > > Richard Groult, the ShowImg author, have reported to me than i will use this 
> > > library for the next Showimg version instead the duplicate DMetadata class 
> > > copied in core... 
> > 
> > Ok, then a shared lib is logical!

Some random items that can to my mind while preparing a kubuntu pkg:

	o before release think twice about the API, so can be
	  extended without breaking the API.  As several apps
	  will use it, every API break needs quite some work
	  to adapt the apps.

	o looks like exiv2 changes it's API frequently.  Will
	  force libkexiv2 API changes too?

	o Should it be possible to have several versions
          installed at the same time?  This requires SOMAJOR
	  version number
	  be included in file path of
	  runtime (requited by distros)
		UI msg catalog
	  devel:
		include path for headers

	o libkexiv2.h contain no version info. Neither a
	  version string, nor ints for major, minor, bugfix
	  revision.

Achim

> > The downside is that someone needs to make tarballs of it...
> ... And kipi team seems to be the right candidate...
> Well Valerio, you, me and Gilles, I believe, are able to do that
> (well it's not so hard to, for any others though), maybe we could
> try to cooperate to avoid big affort for one person only.

> 
> Cheers,
> 	Angelo
> 



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