[Nepomuk] The Nepomuk Situation

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 05/07/2012 03:47 PM, ivan.cukic at gmail.com wrote:
> Maybe there could be something like qt has - BEGIN_NEPOMUK_NAMESPACE... So that if the same needs to be done in the future, we could just change the macro value.

That would be much more work since each cpp file has the namespaces in
the method definitions.

> I don't know, thinking that Nepomuk2 namespace is looking rather ugly :)

it is indeed.

> The dirtiest solution library-wise would be to have everything in NepomukCore::Nepomuk::Something so that the only change in the current code of nepomuk users would be a using namespace NepomukCore;
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> Sorry for being a bit vague, I'm writing from my phone.
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> Cheerio,
> IvanOn 7.5.12. 14.49 Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org> wrote:
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> On 05/07/2012 02:35 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote:
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>> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org
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>> <mailto:trueg at kde.org>> wrote:
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>>     On 05/07/2012 12:09 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote:
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>>     > So, we're down to 3 options -
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>>     > *1.* nepomuk-core become a dependency of kdelibs. Kdelibs is not
>>     touched.
>>     > *Problem:* Overlapping headers and possible mysterious crashes if both
>>     > libraries are loaded.
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>>     > *2.* nepomuk-core installs headers under nepomuk2. It's released
>>     > independently.
>>     > *Problem:* Mysterious crashes if both libraries are loaded.
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>>     > *3.* nepomuk-core installs headers under nepomuk2 and the namespace is
>>     > changed to nepomuk2.
>>     > *Problem:* A lot more work :(
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>>     Well, I suppose we could make this work with some sed magic. :P
>>     I would vote for option 3 which could then be reverted (or not) for
>>     kde5.
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>> I would prefer option 2.
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>> The mysterious crashes would only happen if an application's plugin
>> links to the incorrect libraries.
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>> Is that a possibility for us?
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> I already experienced that. Took me a while to find the reason.
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> Alright.
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> I would like the Nepomuk2 namespace and include directories be removed for the frameworks, but I guess it is not a big deal if that doesn't happen.
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> Okay, everyone. This is the point where you chime in and say - "We're okay with this" or you raise your objections. We would like to get this mess sorted in time for the 4.9 release.
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