Future of Alkimia

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

On Donnerstag, 12. April 2018 17:09:16 CEST Ralf Habacker wrote:

> Am 04.04.2018 um 18:34 schrieb Christian David:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Alkimia was started about eight years ago by the developers of Skrooge,
> > Kraft and KMyMoney. Unfortunately it never supported more than AlkValue.
> > As far as I know, KMyMoney is the only project left to use alkimia.
> > Skrooge and Kraft are not using it anymore and I do not know any other
> > software to use alkimia.
> > 
> > For this reason I recommend to drop alkimia and move AlkValue into
> > KMyMoney
> > directly. This reduces the maintenance for developers, packages and users
> > who just want to compile KMyMoney on their own. Additionally it reduces
> > possible sources of trouble (just remember how much work it was for Ralf
> > to get it working with Qt 4 & 5)
> 
> which was an interesting challenge to see how to create a multi platform
> library.
> 
> and we remove a dependency.
> According to a recent build log
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/windows:mingw:win32/mingw3
> 2-kmymoney-installer/openSUSE_Leap_42.2/x86_64 kmymoney depends on about 85
> packages. Removing one dependency is about 1,11 %.
> 
> > What are you thinking about this?
> 
> Another option would be make it more interesting for other projects by
> adding more stuff into.

I was thinking about moving the exchange rate stuff incl. the online updates 
into alkimia. I think, there was some approach towards it already.

-- 

Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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