[Kde-scm-interest] Splitting kdebindings when moving to git

[Arno Rehn]

On Thursday 19 August 2010 17:42:42 Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 19. August 2010 17.02.59 Arno Rehn wrote:
> > With KDE bindings we have the problem that many people only want the Qt-
> > specific part of the bindings (like QtRuby or Qyoto) - and then only for
> > one  language. Having all of the different bindings in a KDE module makes
> > it difficult for them to install only the Qt portion and even prevents
> > some people from contributing (there's already a fork of QtRuby on
> > github, because people don't like checking out the complete kdebindings
> > and then going through the hassle of figuring out how to compile only
> > QtRuby).
> 
> Is this really *the* problem?
> With a total checkout size of 116Mb I'm thinking the git repo is not really
> that big. Maybe you can give us an exact number of the unsplitted size.
> 
> Figuring out which one to compile sounds even stranger; the detection is
> pretty advanced and it won't even try to compile the parts you don't
> touch.
> 
> The reason for keeping it together is because the KDE team intends to
> release the bindings as a 'kdebindings' for each KDE release. One git repo
> then equals one tarball that is released. I think Thiago gave a nice
> overview of the reasons behind that; which I won't repeat here as this is
> a discussion that should not be reopened again without really good reasons
> :-)
Which is exactly one problem that we face with a big 'kdebindings' module. Qt 
releases are not aligned with KDE releases, which means that by the time a new 
Qt release is out, people might have to wait another half year before the 
appropiate bindings are released in kdebindings (considering a worst-case 
scenario).

> As Aaron wrote some time ago; "Its a discussion we had and closed, its
> decided"
> 
> The reasons you cite are not entirely convincing to me, at this late stage,
> to warrent a change in strategy.
As Maciej already pointed out, this is not about making kdebindings some kind 
of 'meta-module' whith no own 'module-repository'. This is about unbundling 
only *parts* of kdebindings, to make it easier for qt-only people to get 
involved and/or use it.

-- 
Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de