[Kexi-devel] What's new in KReport & KProperty & Predicate

Sun Apr 19 22:54:24 UTC 2015

Hi,
More updates: dirty code for the plugin manager: see my private clone
of kreport.

 commit 46e2f69fcdd77bb11b40fe73a03fbaafe060a479
    add the initial plugins autotest (doesn't build for now)

commit 0c681d4062cf58a606b454deaafb6c2bc0582038
    Add a new plugin system (UNFINISHED)

On 19 April 2015 at 21:54, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> On 18 April 2015 at 19:27, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> New code in kreport, please read:
>>
>> + 1a13b092b091e0dd8cbe72d091a666ed6ee24eab Port KoPageFormat to Qt5
>> + a730d9b164f9165fe326fd6833e7391c3d127e0c Port
>> KGlobalSettings::smallestReadableFont()
>> + 2627fcb9d787c271c6c7fd50f0aa1cc0bfbfbade Port from KTemporaryFile
>> + 844a355f0367545ca0b7c3e3ca1a0d09c7c04f3b More ifdefs for scripting code
>> + 6eef4d819113af81369cac0f445148e66ae782b4 most dependent libs are private
>> + 4a1cdfe33d3af764dfee297da760d48f68578dcb Remove unused method declaration
>> + c55078ae3c653c82feaf1428bc11de6e2318f2cb Temporarily disable ods/odt renderers
>
> 1. The above means KReport links, btw :)
>
> 2. I've added to https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
> the following:
>
> "Add tests and/or examples to KReport, make it easier to understand as
> a framework; Port some code from Kexi Reports (e.g. KexiReportView) to
> KReport "
>
> This means... larger refactoring would be needed in Kexi/KReport to
> make this true. This is why I propose to have it in post-3.0. This
> does not mean unit test cannot be added now. Please consider adding
> that... KReport has none!
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On 16 April 2015 at 23:15, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> Update:
>>> - I am keeping new changes to kreport in
>>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fkreport%2Fstaniek%2Fwork.git
>>> @Adam, could you please review? These big boring patches do not fit to
>>> reviewboard too much.
>>>
>>> - I am finalizing the plugin manager work for kreport to make it as
>>> recommended in https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Schedules/3.0/Porting_Notes#Plugin_system
>>>
>>> See also the updated
>>> https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Schedules/3.0/Porting_Plan for more
>>> overview.
>>>
>>> On 13 April 2015 at 00:43, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> Update:
>>>> - Everything what's enabled in KReport (the *Manager isn't) compiles
>>>> - Predicate rename to KDb in progress, for code see my kdb branch or
>>>> the scratch repo:
>>>> http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=clones%2Fpredicate%2Fstaniek%2Fwork.git&a=shortlog&h=c7751f3846b9054244337c887836e28ccae485bd
>>>>
>>>> On 9 April 2015 at 10:45, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> Please publish the patch as an attachment as we did before.
>>>>> We're waiting for admins and systems to synchronize everything.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, I don't touch kreport to avoid conflicts :)
>>>>> Just updating calligra frameworks branch to reflect changes that
>>>>> happened to koproperty.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9 April 2015 at 08:01, Adam Pigg <piggz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Excellent, I've got a lot of changes to push to kreport, am I waiting for rb to work?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>>>>>   Original Message
>>>>>> From: Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2015 11:45 PM
>>>>>> To: kexi-devel at kde.org
>>>>>> Reply To: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list
>>>>>> Cc: Calligra Suite developers and users mailing list
>>>>>> Subject: Re: What's new in KReport & KProperty & Predicate
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> Update: KProperty and KReport frameworks have moved to the official places:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> git clone kde:kproperty
>>>>>> git clone kde:kreport
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The page [1] has been updated accordingly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Notes
>>>>>> 0. Consider API and state of KProperty ready to use within Calligra
>>>>>> (for now Kexi and Plan) and elsewhere (if someone is in need)
>>>>>> 1. There won't be pushes with --force anymore for kproperty and kreport :)
>>>>>> 2. The reviewboard will be available soon and all usual infrastructure
>>>>>> you know from the KDE repos.
>>>>>> 3. kreport still doesn't build fully (this is a dependency for porting
>>>>>> of Kexi and Plan)
>>>>>> 4. please coordinate planned changes with me, innocent changes such as
>>>>>> file renames may set your patch hard to apply.
>>>>>> 5. predicate stays in the scratch repo for some time awaiting history
>>>>>> editing, until we get proper dir layout
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 6 April 2015 at 16:17, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> Update:
>>>>>>> - cmake build scripts for KProperty and KReport are largely following
>>>>>>> the conventions of KF5 and e.g. KDiagram
>>>>>>> - KProperty now uses CamelCase filenames and (mostly) the convention
>>>>>>> of KProperty prefix for class names (so the KoProperty namespace is
>>>>>>> removed)
>>>>>>> - Consider KProperty are almost ready for placing in the final
>>>>>>> repository. Example app in examples/ subdir works.
>>>>>>> - part of the KReport is ported to use QLatin1String where needed,
>>>>>>> also some includes are fixed; Adam is helping with this right now
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> TODO:
>>>>>>> - more QLatin1String and include fixes for KReport
>>>>>>> - port KReport to the new KProperty naming conventions
>>>>>>> - some test app for KReport would help us to verify it without waiting
>>>>>>> for Kexi to be ported
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Feel free to test and report any ideas/issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 3 April 2015 at 01:07, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> There's a number of new commits in the temporary repos [0].
>>>>>>>> A short update and proposed plans.
>>>>>>>> Let's make them work, test them so they're not blockers for porting
>>>>>>>> Kexi anymore.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (we're assuming KF5 frameworks are installed from packages or built
>>>>>>>> with the great kdesrc-build tool [1])
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> KProperty:
>>>>>>>> - builds and installs
>>>>>>>> - includes changes from Adam [2]
>>>>>>>> - includes all changes from calligra/2.9
>>>>>>>> - headers install to include/KProperty
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> KReport:
>>>>>>>> - includes changes from Adam [3]
>>>>>>>> - TODO: more build would work if "find_package(KProperty REQUIRED)" works
>>>>>>>> - TODO: add the central CMakeLists.txt, like in KProperty, for now we
>>>>>>>> have to build kreport/src/.
>>>>>>>> - TODO: install headers to include/KReport
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Predicate:
>>>>>>>> - not much recently, needs more patches ported from calligra/2.9,
>>>>>>>> please help with this
>>>>>>>> - soon also this [4]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> All three:
>>>>>>>> - TODO: dig in their central CMakeLists.txt files to make them
>>>>>>>> configure similarly to KF5 packages so line such as "find_package(....
>>>>>>>> REQUIRED)" adds necessary include path for the users of the libs;
>>>>>>>> volunteers needed here
>>>>>>>> - TODO: once we have all three usable, porting scripts will be in use
>>>>>>>> - Note: no calligra activities from the 'frameworks' branch of
>>>>>>>> calligra affect these 3 libs because the 'frameworks' branch no longer
>>>>>>>> contains their code (so no merges from 'frameworks' are expected, only
>>>>>>>> small merges by hand for bugfixes from calligra/2.9)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [0] https://community.kde.org/Kexi/Porting_to_Qt%26KF_5
>>>>>>>> [1] https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building
>>>>>>>> [2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123038/
>>>>>>>> [3] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123039/
>>>>>>>> [4] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122015/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> KDE:
>>>>>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>>>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>>>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>>>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>>>>>> Kexi:
>>>>>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>>>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>>>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> KDE:
>>>>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>>>>> Kexi:
>>>>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>>
>>>>>> KDE:
>>>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>>>> Kexi:
>>>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>
>>>>> KDE:
>>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>>> Kexi:
>>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>
>>>> KDE:
>>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>>> Calligra Suite:
>>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>>> Kexi:
>>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>
>>> KDE:
>>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>>> Calligra Suite:
>>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>>> Kexi:
>>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>
>> KDE:
>> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
>> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
>> Calligra Suite:
>> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
>> Kexi:
>> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
>> Qt Certified Specialist:
>> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>
>
>
> --
> regards, Jaroslaw Staniek
>
> KDE:
> : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
> : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
> Calligra Suite:
> : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
> Kexi:
> : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
> Qt Certified Specialist:
> : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek

-- 
regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

KDE:
: A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators
: and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org
Calligra Suite:
: A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org
Kexi:
: A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi
Qt Certified Specialist:
: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek