repository changes for plasma2/frameworks5

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 17:21:41 UTC 2013


Hi all,

As you know, Plasma is composed mainly by two parts: the library, now in 
kdelibs and a runtime part, now in kde-runtime.

the runtime part is basically:
* QML imports
* A "scriptengine" to write plasmoids in QML, dataengines in javascript etc
* a kpart
* default theme
* some command line tools

For the development of plasma2, the development of those parts will have to go 
together since both have to be ported to QML2 that has some significant 
differences at runtime level.

Since one idea of Frameworks was to have in the same place the library and the 
runtime, this was the idea of repo reorganize:

* what's is now in kdelibs/plasma goes to kdelibs/plasma/plasma (last name 
still being plasma makes possible to move without changes in the code)
* what's now in kde-runtime/plasma (except the "containments" subfolder) goes 
in kdelibs/plasma
* what's now in kde-runtime/desktoptheme goes to kdelibs/plasma/desktoptheme

probably in the end i guess all of this will have to go in a separate repo of 
its own: so the merge operation can be done either before, still in kdelibs or 
after the creation of a new repo (if we want it in a separate repo)


Most important, what is the less messy git way to do it?

Cheers, 
Marco Martin


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