Request: remove libkactivites from kdelibs (in experimental/)

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Sun Nov 6 15:29:56 UTC 2011


On Friday 04 November 2011 6:05:28 PM Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi ..
> 
> we currently have libkactivities in kdelibs/experimental. due to upcoming 
> changs and frameworks 5 development, it has been moved into its own git 
> repository: kactivities.
> 
> i would like to request approval to remove it from kdelibs/experimental and 
> make the kactivities repository a dependency for kde-workspace.
> 
Do you mean to remove it from the kdelibs-4.7 branch?
it should definitely be removed from kdelibs-master, if it hasn't been already.


> the benefits:
> 
> * libkworkspace drops 4 classes (essentially halfing it in size)
> * we have one place for libkactivities so people don't continue to get 
> confused
> 
> the drawbacks:
> 
> * a new module required for building kde-workspace
> 
> note that this module is already a dependency for the plasma-mobile 
> repository.
> 
for the KDE SC 4.8 release, I think this is already the situation.
and for KDE SC 4.7.4 and above..  I guess that's something for the packagers.




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