[WebKit-devel] kwebkitpart and konq-plugins dilemma...

[Urs Wolfer]

On Saturday 27 February 2010 18:54:16 Dawit A wrote:
> While attempting to go through and fix some of the Konqueror plugins to add
> support for kwebkitpart, I run into one dilemma I do not know how to fix.
> 
> Unlike the khtml part, which is available by default, the kwebkitpart is
> optional and must be installed from extragear/base. For that reason some
> checks must be added to the plugins to detect the presence of kwebkitpart
> in order to add support for it. Unfortunately, both the kwebkitpart and
> konq- plugins modules are both located in the very same module,
> extragear/base. This means that in order to activate support for
> kwebkitpart, one must first compile and install kwebkitpart and then do a
> clean (read: rerun cmake) compile and install of the konq-plugins.
> 
> I am sure this is mostly going to be an issue for distro packagers and
> those that compile KDE from source, but still it is an issue and I cannot
> think of a good way to solve it... Is creating dependencies between two
> standalone modules in extragear allowed ? Perhaps kwebkitpart belonged in
> extragear/libs after all ???
> 
> Suggestions are welcome...

Of course this is not a nice case, but IMHO it does not really hurt. I do not 
know any distribution which create a extragear-base-all package; all of them 
separate the package and create instead just a extragear-base-kwebkitpart 
package. So they will not have issues with these dependencies.

Hope I do not have missed an important fact...

Bye
urs
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