Review Request 102291: Trigger installation of missing components when installing a package

[David Edmundson]

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Closing as this review request is more than 2 years old.

If it still applies to current Plasma please reopen this review request. Thanks

- David Edmundson


On Aug. 10, 2011, 10:10 p.m., Kevin Kofler wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 10, 2011, 10:10 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: kdelibs
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> Description
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> This is another part of my GSoC 2011 work.
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> For script engines, the existing metadata (X-Plasma-API) is sufficient.
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> For data engines, we introduce a new metadata entry:
> X-Plasma-RequiredDataEngines. Third-party packages will have to add this entry
> to benefit from this feature at this time. Automatic support for scanning
> package source code on installation (at least for some languages) is planned,
> but the metadata entry is definitely the most efficient method.
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/package.cpp 4c00d36 
>   plasma/packagemetadata.h b10f0e4 
>   plasma/packagemetadata.cpp 59163b2 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102291/diff/
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> Testing
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> Verified that it compiles without errors and that it successfully prompts for a missing Python script engine right after installing a Python widget (I used Veromix for my test) through KHNS (not only when actually using it) on Fedora 15. Also verified that there is no such prompt if plasma-scriptengine-python is already installed.
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> (The patch is against master (4.8), but applies without changes to the kdelibs 4.6.5 in Fedora 15, which is how I tested it.)
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> Thanks,
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> Kevin Kofler
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