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

Mon Apr 27 16:06:39 UTC 2015

2.9.3 is tagged and will be released on 29th so no new fixes will go
into this version. If you're interested (you are, right?) please keep
finding reporting bugs/wishes for improvements so they'd be part of
2.9.4 (before May 23rd [1]). Browse forums, there are requests that
have to be formulated a bit more clearly in form of bug reports. Don't
afraid to ask and continue discussions.

Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed to Kexi 2.9.3!

In the meantime I am a back to porting 3.x again. This is the usual cycle.

[1] https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Schedules/2.9/Release_Plan

On 21 April 2015 at 09:33, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi
> Update: 2.9.3 Tagging is set to April 25th, and I am planning to drag
> some fixes to Kexi by that date.
> I encourage you to join this effort this week by testing and reporting
> any issues. Even small notes are helpful, especially if there's an
> easy fix :)
>
> This means less work on the porting side until 26th.
>
> On 20 April 2015 at 00:54, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>
> --
> 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