Restructuring the kdevelop.git folder layout

[Aleix Pol]

n Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:34 PM, René J. V.  Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kevin Funk wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 05:09:14 CEST Morten Volden wrote:
>>> +1 for the change overall.
>>>
>>> I would prefer to keep kdevplatform as is, but maybe that is just me.
>>
>> Heya,
>>
>> No strong opinions on that one either. I can actually leave that out to
>> minimize the number of renames. That particular folder is very easy to rename
>> afterwards anyway.
>>
>> Moving the *plugins* is the most important change, to make it easier to
>> navigate the KDevelop code base.
>
> To what extent are you planning to keep the KDevPlatform concept? Is it no
> longer supposed to be something that could be useful to other projects? Not that
> I use it that way (or know of any projects that do) but for that kind of use it
> could have been useful to maintain some sort of quick reference to which plugins
> were (are) part of KDevPlatform.
>
> (keeping the kdevplatform/plugins dir and populating it with symlinks would have
> reduced the refactoring of my patches and build scripts too ^^  -------------->)

IMHO, we shouldn't kill the library. I also don't think we want to
promote it much at the moment.

We need it for plugins at least and that's enough reason.

Aleix