Next Gen CI - frameworks requirements for plasma

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Fri May 12 11:41:36 UTC 2017


On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:09 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> Following up from Ben's email where we won't have master of frameworks in
> buidling master of Plasma.
>
>> If this affects you, please start a
> new thread (CC'ing sysadmin and kde-core-devel along with your
> Product's main list) stating which specific repositories you need and
> providing one to two lines of explaination for each.
>
>> Note that requests for the entirety of Frameworks won't be accepted -
> each must be requested on an individual basis with an explanation
> given for why your development process is dependent on the master
> version of that Framework.
>
> plasma-desktop will need master of:
>  - plasma-framework
>
> plasma-workspace will need master of:
>  - plasma-framework
>  - kwayland
>
> kdeplasma-addons will need master of:
>  - plasma-framework
>
> plasma-sdk will need master of:
>  - plasma-framework
>
> plasma-integration will need master of:
>  - kwayland
>
> kwayland-integration will need master of:
>  - kwayland
>
> Also related: There's a dependency on newish kirigami in discover.
>
> There's an incredibly tight coupling between plasma and plasma-framework.
> #ifdef, even ignoring the problems that brings, isn't an option as most the
> changes are new properties/classes in QML imports where it's used without  a
> preprocessor. This really affects anywhere with a Plasma applet (the first
> 4)
>
> KWayland is still very much a dynamic area  as it's a high paced area.  It
> gets new APIs for every new protocol, and we'll be making a new protocol
> because we're using it somewhere.

Thanks for those details David.

I've now added plasma-framework to the Plasma product. KWayland is
already in it courtesy of Martin's email :)
For Kirigami, let's wait and see if that's needed.

>
> David

Cheers,
Ben


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