[kgraphviewer-devel] Preparing a release

[Milian Wolff]

On Saturday 24 April 2010 10:50:39 Gaël (aka Kleag) wrote:
> 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 ?

full ack. The slot... stuff should be removed. I'll see whether I can get 
around to do it.

Other question: Do you know whether sandroandrade + one other guy read this 
list now? We could need more feedback from them...

> > > > > 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.

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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