Proposal regarding plasmate's release

[David Edmundson]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 08:52:09PM +0300, Antonis Tsiapaliokas wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 06:08:52PM +0200, David Edmundson wrote:
> > > Can it go under kde/workspace if in future it will depend on something
> in
> > > extragear?
> > >
> > > I still support doing the rest, and making / release.. I'm just not
> sure we
> > > can do the move and release it with plasma.
> >
> > At the moment the only application inside from the Plasmate repo
> > which depends on extragear is Plasmate (the application), and it depends
> on the
> > Kdevplatform. The rest of the applications doesn't depend on extragear.
> >
> > Plasmate (the application) is currently being disabled from building by
> default.
> > So the Plasmate repo doesn't need something from extragear in order to
> build.
> >
> > In the feature Plasmate (the application) will be build as an optional
> depedency
> > only if the Kdevplatform is being present.
> >
> > So kde/workspace is building first from the kdesrc-build, so if we move
> the Plasmate
> > repo there, Plasmate (the application) it will never get build.
> > It will require a rebuild.
>
> I don't have a problem with it depending on stuff in extragear as we
> depend on many external items.  As long as that stuff we depend on in
> extragear doesn't depend on stuff in plasma.


What happens when kdevplatform releases an update with an API break?
You'll want  to release a new Plasmate. It being optional doesn't change
that.


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