[Kexi-devel] Removing code of "Kexi Relation Design Shape" for now?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

+1 for removal and placing it in OBSOLETE.md with a proper reference
to the newest version of this code prior to removal. Such tools aimed
at skilled users have to be reasonably  integrated, 'nice enough'.
Placing in OBSOLETE.md will let someone to take over the task in the
future.

On 12 July 2015 at 15:51, Adam Pigg <piggz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shame on broke..it certainly used to work!
>
> It provides a shape which contains details of a database table...the use case being as a database design tool, I think visio provides something similar.
>
> Shouldn't take much fixing as there isn't much code to it. I'll try and find some time for it shortly, if ppl think it's generally a good idea.
>
> Adam
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>   Original Message
> From: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
> Sent: Saturday, 11 July 2015 23:23
> To: kexi-devel at kde.org
> Cc: Adam Pigg
> Subject: Removing code of "Kexi Relation Design Shape" for now?
>
> Hi Adam & all,
>
> I recently discoverd that in the deeper folders of kexi/ there is
> kexi/plugins/shapes/relationdesign, providing a "Kexi Relation Design Shape"
> :) Never seen so far.
>
> Looking closer why that is I found that only two apps have not blacklisted it
> in the default configuration, Karbon and Sheets :(
> (grepped over all *rc files in Calligra (i.e. the default config files) for
> "FlakePluginsDisabled=", and checking if "kexirelationdesignshape" is in the
> list)
>
> So I just tried to play with it: created an empty document in Karbon, added
> the shape, activated the tool, then clicked the button in the config widget to
> select a db -> *boom*, result in a crash with the backtrace ending in
> KexiFileWidget::updateFilters().
> Looking at "git log kexi/plugins/shapes/relationdesign" it seems there was no
> real work on it at least in the last 3 years. So...
>
> What are the plans with it? Anyone going to work on that in the next time,
> trying to make it work? Or should we better for now clean up and delete the
> code from 2.9 branch, noting it's removal in the OBSOLETE.TXT file? To remove
> this dead and broken code, until someone has time and resources to get it
> properly working, with some real world users driving it?
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
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