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

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Sunday 05 December 2010 16:18:49 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> On 05-12-2010 10:15, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> > On Sunday, 5. December 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >> On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 02:26:52AM +0000, Tom Albers wrote:
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> >>>>> Hi Ian, I'm not sure wether you're aware of the previous
> >>>>> discussions about this or not, but the kate devs would like to
> >>>>> remove at least the
> >>>>> kate-dir from kdelibs when it moves to git (as kate has a separate
> >>>>> repository with ktexteditor-interfaces, katepart, kwrite and
> >>>>> kate-the-editor). They'd also like to move out the ktexteditor
> >>>>> interfaces so they don't have to keep both in synch, but IIRC
> >>>>> there's
> >>>>> been close to no comments about that from the release team.
> >>> 
> >>> Removing stuff from kdelibs sounds like bic.
> >> 
> >> no. this is solely a distribution/packaging problem.
> 
> If you start releasing it on a different tarball. If the release team
> adds it to the kdelibs tarball, then it should be ok - for building
> releases.
> 
> > Right, we are talking about libktexteditor.so. Where it comes from does
> > not matter at all. And given that we want to continue to stick with the
> > KDE SC release schedules, nothing changes for the user.
> 
> Not quite. There's the issue of dependencies. If you move it to another
> module you may risk creating a circular dependency issue. The module you
> move it to can't have a dependency on any module that depends on
> libktexteditor.
As the kate repo only depends on kdelibs, I guess that would be no problem.

Greetings
Christoph