[Kde-scm-interest] Re: kdegraphics - a few technical questions

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 12.01.11 15:28:38, Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> 
> > Then why split at all? All your points above suggest that having a split
> > repository has no benefit for you and its unclear wether it'll ever have
> > any benefit. 
> 
> I left out the points why splitting is a benefit and collected only 
> those small problems arising with splitting ;-)
> 
> > Having said that, if someone in your team wants to setup a repository that
> > has a shell script to pull the other ones in, there's no technical reason
> > speaking against that (AFAIK).
> 
> Summing up yours and Ian's answer, we could setup a super repo for convenience 
> of building the whole module, with some technical solution to pull in the 
> split repos, but require the modules to build standalone.
> 
> Brings two more questions:
> 
> a) should CMake modules be moved up to kdelibs or down to the submodule that 
> needs them?

Pushed down, if you move them to kdelibs they'd need to be installed to be
usable for your projects, which in turn means they need to keep
source-compatibility.

Of course in the longer-run you should try to get them into cmake itself
(file a bugreport, possibly suggesting the author of the module as
maintainer).

> b) Would  the super-repo be associated with the KDE/kdegraphics project on 
> projects.kde.org, or what place and name would it have?

As a user I'd expect the repo for kdegraphics to be the one which 'rules
them all' :)

Andreas

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