[Kde-pim] Akonadi related questions

[Volker Krause]

On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:05:33 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> I have been toying around with Akonadi this weekend and this resulted in a
> couple of questions:
>
> 1) akonadi/clients/akonadi
>
> Is this a internal, debug-only, client or meant to be released somewhen in
> the future?
>
> If it is meant to be released, I recommend renaming at least the executable
> to akonadiclient or something similar. Currently it is the first thing
> which comes up on commandline completing, making it the most obvious item
> to start. i.e. making it look like "the" Akonadi program.

Hm, I guess it could be useful to have something like this as an installed 
command line tool. So, renaming is probably a good idea.

> 2) KDE related parts and kDebug
>
> While toying around I wanted to make sure I had all Akonadi related debug
> areas enabled, but I couldn't find any in kdebug.areas.
> So I grep'ed and found that most output is handled with qDebug().
>
> This is obviously the way to go for the server ("no KDE dependency" goal),
> but what about the agents and libakonadi itself?

It mainly has historical reasons (originally the no KDE dependency goal 
existed for the library as well). We probably should add Akonadi debug areas 
and start using those.

> 3) 4.0 release
>
> I know that the plan is to introduce Akonadi with 4.1, but does this mean
> it will not be part of the release source-packages (or disabled) or will it
> just not be supported (can/will change API/ABI, etc)

Unless something changes it will be part of the KDE4.0 release but only as a 
preview release without any guarantees on API/ABI compatibility.

regards
Volker
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