[kgraphviewer-devel] Preparing a release

[Gaël (aka Kleag)]

On Friday 23 April 2010 11:23:49 Milian Wolff wrote:
> 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.
Yes. Do you want to do it ? 

But, in the class definition, they are called "slotXyz", and it would be 
strange in an interface to have such names. "xyz" would be more natural. What 
do you think ?


> 
> > > > 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
> :)
Oh, yes, I see. I'm sometimes a little bit "slow" when reading English. 
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KGraphViewer - a GraphViz dot graphs viewer and editor based on a reusable 
part
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