[KDE/Mac] Frameworks Deployment Issues

Christoph Cullmann cullmann at absint.com
Mon Oct 12 06:55:12 UTC 2015


Hi,

KXMLGui is now deployable without any extra files:

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125595/

=> No issues for this framework itself any more on windows or mac and no workarounds.

Greetings
Christoph

----- Am 12. Okt 2015 um 0:27 schrieb cullmann cullmann at absint.com:

>> On Sunday October 11 2015 23:48:47 Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>>> I will work in the next months on the current frameworks deployment issues.
>> ...
>> 
>>> With that patch and with KTextEditor/Kate already patched to pack their ui files
>>> in resources
>>> at least the menu/toolbar creation works like a charm with just the libraries
>>> around.
>> 
>> I presume you mean the Contents/Resources directory in individual app bundles?
>> That should work for app-specific ui files, maybe even for ui files belonging
>> to libraries (if those exist) when built as frameworks, but it'll be tougher
>> for applications that aren't built as bundles.
>> 
>> Anyway, whatever you do, please comment your changes inline so that it's easy to
>> come back to things that may have to be switched back to XDG-style deployment
>> locations.
> Hi,
> 
> my patch will still allow all things we do today, it will just in addition allow
> to put
> things in resources and default to do so, which makes sense on any deployment
> style.
> 
> Even for the normal XDG way, it just makes sense to bundle the ui stuff in the
> matching libraries,
> there is no benefit by installing them as extra files, the user is still able to
> overwrite
> them with local copies (like the configure toolbar dialog will create).
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
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