[kgraphviewer-devel] Preparing a release

[Milian Wolff]

Gaël (aka Kleag), 23.04.2010:
> On Thursday 22 April 2010 14:46:34 Milian Wolff wrote:
> > Gaël (aka Kleag), 22.04.2010:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > As noted by some of you, one of the things to do for kgraphviewer is to
> > > prepare a release.
> > > 
> > > What do you think should be done before doing this release ? Is there
> > > some missing or incomplete feature to implement before releasing ?
> > > Maybe the final replacement of the external dot process by the
> > > graphviz library ?
> > 
> > I'd welcome that. And furthermore I'd like to get more feedback on my
> > interface. We shouldn't provide ABI compatibility for the first release,
> > but should come up with a working interface anyways...
> 
> Concerning, the interface, don't you think that most of the part slots
> should be available through the interface, like addNewNode or removeNode ?
> Otherwise what would be the right criterion to include a feature in the
> interface or not ?

Yes, good point. As long as the signals are pure virtual members (not signals) 
in the interface, they can be easily overwritten by slots in the actual 
implementation. That's also what's done in e.g. the KTextEditor interfaces.

> > > I have started to set up a suse build service to be able to produce
> > > packages for several Linux distributions when the release will be
> > > ready.
> > 
> > Cool. But imo there are packagers for many repos out there who'd help you
> > here, at least we from kdevelop don't do any custom packaging...
> 
> Yes, you're right. And kgv is already packaged by several distros, but that
> can allow to give a compatibility with current and previous distros
> versions.
> 
> > Simply announce on kde-packagers or how that ML was called.
> 
> I did not know this kde-packagers list... I'll try to remember. I don't
> understand what you mean by "or how that ML was called." ?

Well, is it really kde-packagers at kde.org or was it something-else at kde.org :)
-- 
Milian Wolff
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