Future of teamwork plugin

[David Nolden]

Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 22:43:02 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> stable != not crashing, but I think you're aware of that.
Of course I know that. That's why I added the "not crashing".

> It is dead code and I think one of the issues we wanted to avoid in
> KDevelop4 is carrying dead code around. What is so bad about moving the
> plugin to a (quite popular) place in playground?

Dead code is relative.. just because noone works on something for half a year 
doesn't mean it's dead, else kdevelop-3.4 would be 90% dead since years.

> Its not in a working state right now, except on your and my system. That
> is it doesn't compile against boost 1.33.1. Its also in a non-working
> state on at least 1 platform other than linux and yes IMHO that counts
> wether KDE4/win32 happens for 4.0 or for 4.1.

It does compile with boost 1.33.1, that's what I developed it with. You're 
maybe referring to a problem with the ubuntu feisty boost-packages, they are 
broken(dapper worked, and gutsy works too, that's why I had to upgrade).

It also doesn't compile with amd64 because of a bug in boost(cannot serialize 
64-bit integers on 64-bit systems). But that can be workarounded easily. 
Stays windows..

mathieu:
> "the only future I can see for this plugin is a rewrite ... I don't know 
about it but maybe also a redesign ... "

Rewrite, redesign? What exactly is wrong about the design? Imo, the design of 
the networking-library is great, I'm proud of it. It is easy, multithreaded, 
safe, powerful. I wouldn't do it different now, except that I'd use qt. 

Your statement shows that you haven't understood anything about the design.

That's probably my fault. I've created a imo good system, but probably missed 
out documenting it enough for others to think the same about it. The whole 
thing may be a little messy in some places, but mostly It's good in my 
opinion. I've used advanced features of C++ to make the code cleaner and 
safer. 
It may need a little time to understand some of the things, but once you did, 
you would see how cool it is. I do not have the feeling that anyone really 
tried understanding the stuff and maybe even learn some new concepts, but 
instead just start yelling as soon as they see something that does not look 
like the usual kde/qt code.

However, since noone likes it, you can move it into playground Adreas.

greetings, David