kdemultimedia and svn -> git

[Ian Monroe]

2011/1/14 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
> On Wednesday 12 January 2011, Ian Monroe wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 16:22, George Kiagiadakis
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>> <kiagiadakis.george at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 2011/1/12 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <kde at carewolf.com>:
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>> >> On Wednesday 12 January 2011, Ian Monroe wrote:
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>> >>> So we should move to Git. Its what folks are doing.
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>> >>>
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>> >>> I think it would make sense to split up kdemultimedia into several
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>> >>> different modules.
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>> >> Oh God NO!!!!
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>> >> Please please do NOT split up any more modules, you are making
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>> >> developing for KDE absolute hell.
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>> > Why is that a hell? What's wrong with it? And what "more" modules? Did
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>> > anybody split anything else yet?
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>> We just did kdebindings, and thats the only KDE module to split so far
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>> AFAIK. kdebindings as one module was pretty hellish, I think anyone
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>> who has tried to build it can agree.
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> I agree with splitting kdebindings, especially because some parts of it was
> not installable without modifying /usr which I didn't want to.
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> Is there an option to split modules and still make it possible to deal with
> them collectively (like you can in SVN with extragear for instance). The
> use-case is parttime library developers who just wants the standard KDE
> application that uses the modifying custom kdelibs and core modules? Having
> multiple KDE installations, some from distro, some build from sources, is
> not really a desirable solution, and the alternative is that developers are
> not eating our own dogfood.
>

Yes, I think we could do some cool stuff with cmake to make this
happen. You can do big ole hacks to allow build-by-itself +
build-together (see kdesupport circa some months ago), but cmake has
some features to make it possible to do in a more controlled way,
using the export command. After boot-strapping (and maybe even before
that), you could theoretically build an entire linux distro with one
cmake build command, though everything would need to use cmake. :D

Anyways for the future, kde-scm-interest is the proper bitch n'
bikeshed mailing list. :)

Ian