Merging repositories

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Kevin Funk <kfunk at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday, 28 July 2017 17:32:59 CEST Aleix Pol wrote:
>> Dear KDevelopers,
>> During the BoF we were discussing whether it would make sense to merge
>> kdev-python and kdev-php like we did with kdev-clang and kdev-qmljs.
>
> I'm not that sure about merging these language plugins into kdevelop.git,
> though. Despite the pros mentioned it also has a couple of drawbacks:
>
> - It does not scale -- what happens if e.g. kdev-rust (which has another
> external dependency) is getting included into the KDevelop release?
> - Speaking about dependencies: In kdevelop.git we'll pull in more and more
> dependencies by time. This is difficult for distro packagers and they'll
> probably hate it. I've already seen packagers having an issue with KDevelop
> having a hard-dependency on libclang.
>
> I know it's difficult to counter the argument "kdev-clang & kdev-qmljs have
> made it into kdevelop.git, so why not kdev-python & kdev-php?". But I still
> consider KDevelop itself to be a C++-IDE by definition, every other language
> it supports is just an extra plugin (which should be kept in a different
> repository).
>
> A couple of others seem to have concerns about this merge as well.
>
>> Furthermore, we discussed whether it would make sense to merge
>> kdevplatform into kdevelop because:
>> - nobody is using the abstraction
>> - will definitely simplify the steps to take by new contributors
>
> I quite like the idea of merging KDevelop and KDevplatform though. +1 on that
> one. The reasons *for* it have been mentioned already in other subthreads.
>
> No objections on that one.
>
>> Thoughts?
>> Aleix
>
>
> --
> Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org

Okay, let's focus on the "kdevplatform + kdevelop" merge first, then
we can discuss Python and PHP later (although to me it just boils down
to "is it maintained or not").

Aleix