[Kde-scm-interest] [Proposal] Package splitting with thin meta-repos

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Sábado 30. Janeiro 2010, às 16.56.17, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 04:49:40PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Em Sábado 30. Janeiro 2010, às 16.34.27, Oswald Buddenhagen escreveu:
> > > > You don't link to applications. You link to libraries.
> > > > 
> > > > This includes plugins: plugins link to libraries.
> > > 
> > > uhm ... so?
> > > - the application needs to provide headers which define the interface
> > > - the application may provide an internal library to link against
> > 
> > It's not internal. It's a public library, with installed headers.
> > 
> > It is so because the hypothetical plugin we have in mind here comes from
> > a separate module.
> 
> well, yes. but one wouldn't put that library into a separate module, as
> it is intrinsically part of the application. this breaks your concept
> which doesn't permit dependencies on modules which are not explicitly
> libraries.

But the application could put its library in a Library module. Then both the 
application and the plugin can link to that library.

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