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

[Ian Monroe]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
<jmbsvicetto at gentoo.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.

This is really the wrong list for this discussion.

Ian