Removing the detaching and KDEV_SESSION

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 01.02.10 23:24:46, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 19:39:52 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Anyway, I'm tired of all this discussion right now. So how about the
> > following:
> > 
> > We inline the code needed in SessionController that calculates a
> > session-id and that can list all the sessions, its static already right
> > now and doesn't need any running code from the shell library. Then we
> > create a small wrapper app (Qt only probably) which uses the inline
> > functions to supply the --sessions output and generates a session id
> > from the -s switch. Then it runs the real app as subprocess, without
> > detaching it.
> That is more or less what the kdev_starter thing does. Just someone needs to 
> allow it to have more exact knowledge about the sessions. The problem is that 
> their data is hidden in kconfig stuff.

Thats not really a problem, it can freely link against any KDE and Qt
libs, it just cannot link against shell or the language library (or any
other lib depending on language). I'll try to do this on wednesday or
thursday, depending on time and motivation.
 
> > That way the duchain-stuff is only loaded once the envvar is set, we get
> > proper stdout/stderr forwarding and follow-fork-mode should work again
> > (though you'll have to disable it again once you broke into the main()
> > of the reall executable).
> > 
> > > Changing anything about that is out of discussion in medium-term, as the
> > > relation between effort and potential value is exorbitantly bad.
> > 
> > What exactly is medium-term for you? I'm asking with my maintainer head
> > on here. Because if its clear that this won't be fixed within the next
> > 12-24 months, then this won't happen at all.
> 
> By medium term I mean the next 6 months. I won't do any promises. I feel 
> responsible to make keep this stuff running, and to make it work properly in 
> the first place, and honestly that is already enough given my available time & 
> motivation.

I totally understand that, its obvious there won't be any change in this
area before the 4.0 release.

Andreas

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