[Kde-scm-interest] Re: converting kdelibs/kdebase to git

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Sunday 05 December 2010 10:30:51 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 08:12:20AM +0100, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > An objection here, to do this with the rules will silently alter
> > history.
> 
> i think that's the whole idea here. the entire kate history is already
> in a separate repo, so unless one'd want to be able to check out
> historically accurate revisions of kdelibs (which is a pipe dream
> anyway), there is no reason to duplicate it.
> 
> fwiw, kate's approach to put everything actually related into one repo
> is an explicit violation of the kdelibs vs. kdebase-runtime concept
> (though they circumvented it in the first place by putting kwrite under
> apps and kate into kdesdk). as it happens, i think they are right with
> doing that ... the same should happen with kdesu and probably some other
> modules, and the libs/runtime split should be a distributor-only thing.
For the developer perspective, that bundling makes most sense.

With the given kate repo (which still is synced back to svn by me), 
contributors only need to clone what they work on.

Actually to break the libs/runtime constraints was not the plan ;)
But me thinks, thats anyway only the user visible packaging stuff.

Still it needs to be talked about, if it is feasible for KDE 4.7 to package 
kate's stuff from the kate repo and remove the current duplication that way.
Last thread on release-team about that was kind of non-starter.
(atm only thing missing in kate repo is the docs, as I didn't want to annoy 
the doc-writers with syncing)

Greetings
Christoph