kde-workspace dependency

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 29.09.11 11:48:06, Milian Wolff wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat, 28.09.2011:
> > On 27.09.11 16:31:24, Afief Halumi wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I was trying to install kdevelop in my home directory at work. But the
> > > dependency on kde-workspace is keeping me from doing so.
> > > 
> > > We are using an old and proven Linux distro and it'll probably be years
> > > before we upgrade to something that is slightly newer, and on such an old
> > > system it seems that kde-workspace is chocking on some OpenGL. This is
> > > keeping me from building kde-workspace and thus kdevelop.
> > > 
> > > I don't follow the internals of kde or kdevelop, but the kde-workspace
> > > README says that anything that typical applications(e.g not a panel or a
> > > screensaver, which is stuff that is tied to the workspace) should not
> > > depend on kde-workspace. Is there a good reason for this dependency? Can
> > > it perhaps be made optional for those of us unlucky enough to not have a
> > > fully installed KDE system?
> > 
> > You're not alone, basically any gentoo user has the same problem. The
> > dependency exists so that KDevelop does not need to have its own widget
> > and logic to show processes to the user for attaching a debugger to it.
> > We're using the processui library which is still in kde-workspace. When
> > this first came up the processui maintainer promised to move the library
> > to kdelibs but as you can see that never happened (probably because it
> > works for most people this way as well).
> > 
> > Its possible to make this optional, but that requires someone to dig up
> > the old code for the process-listview and then adjust the code in the
> > gdb plugin to use that if the processui library is not found.
> 
> Why not just disable the "attach to process" stuff if someone does not have 
> kde-workspace installed?

Because that severly cripples kdevelops debugging facilities? I mean its
not like you have to invent a new widget, its still there in the history
of git. Its just that someone needs to sit down, wrap both widgets in a
API usable for the rest of the code and compile one or the other.

Andreas