Kate App/Part/KWrite => kate.git

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday, January 29, 2011, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> I guess this needs coordination to have for example still working i18n (as

i think it needs coordination with:

* packagers -> they'll now want to make katepart in its new location a 
dependency for several packages (kdeedu, as an optional "recommended" for 
plasma-desktop)

* the definition of "KDE Platform"; this essentially spins out kate from the 
traditional modules for the Platofrm (support, kdelibs, kde-runtime). we want 
to modularize kdelibs, perhaps kate can help push this forward with a 
purposeful real world attempt at doing this

> With kdelibs now being a git, it really is not that nice for contributors
> of kate part to clone whole kdelibs...

if i'm honest with you, i have to say that this sounds like a very weak 
reason. i understand some of the other reasons for what kate is doing here, 
and i think it's an interesting experiment in one way to increase modularity 
of kdelibs while increasing the balkanization of KDE project involvement ... 
but cloning kdelibs is hardly an issue.

i say that as a direct stakeholder as plasma-desktop uses the KTextEditor 
KPart for scripting console. (and right now i can't help but think: thank 
goodness i wrote in a fallback to a simpler KTextEdit)

in any case, i think there are reasons for doing this that will leave fewer 
question marks behind you. :)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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