Review Request: Remove the Thing class

[Albert Astals Cid]

> On July 28, 2012, 12:36 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > I have just been informed that the tarballs for nepomuk-core have already been spun. Could we please please re-spin them, and include this patch. I don't care about the rest. They are just bug fixes.
> > 
> > This one removes an entire class, and if KDE 4.9, goes out without this patch, I can never remove it. Not until Frameworks.
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     What about things like kde-runtime/nepomuk/kioslaves/nepomuk/kio_nepomuk.cpp ?
> 
> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     We just need to remove the headers includes.
>     
>     If it's too much of a problem, then it's fine. I'll deprecate the class in master (or just let it be), and live with it.
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Do you have a list of all the tarballs that need to be remade?
> 
> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     nepomuk-core and kde-runtime. 
>     
>     You'll anyway have to remake nepomuk-core for the windows stuff (if we want, otherwise they can just patch it themselves).
> 
> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     What about http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/network/telepathy/ktp-nepomuk-service/nepomuk-storage.cpp#36 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/network/telepathy/ktp-nepomuk-service/tests/storage-test.cpp#41 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/network/telepathy/ktp-nepomuk-service/tests/tid-base-test.cpp#29 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/pim/zanshin/src/itemview/itemcontext.cpp#47 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/pim/zanshin/src/itemview/nepomukcontextmodel.cpp#36 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/pim/zanshin/src/utils/queries.cpp#30 http://lxr.kde.org/source/playground/pim/zanshin/src/utils/tagmanager.h#32
>     
>     Are we fine breaking them?
>     
>     Also can you guess-estimate the maintaince burden of this class being present during 4.9.x? Do you forsee it breaking/causing problems/making other fixes difficult to do?
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     The Telepathy one is my code, so I'm fine with breaking it. And I'm positive Christian (zanshin) won't mind. I'll patch up his code myself.
>     
>     The main problem with this class is that it conflicts with the auto-generated classes - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232513. Not removing it would mean finding some way to avoid the clash. Either the put the generated classes in a different namespace or something. I'm not sure how I'd fix it.
>     
>     In terms of maintenance effort. It's nothing. That class will just lie there. It does virtually nothing.
>     
>     
>

Ok, let's remove it, no need to have extra cruft in a library we just created to remove cruft


- Albert


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On July 27, 2012, 2:37 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated July 27, 2012, 2:37 p.m.)
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> Review request for Nepomuk, Release Team and Sebastian Trueg.
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> Description
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> No one uses it, and the same class can be generated using the rcgen. 
> I don't see the point of having this class.
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> This is my last chance to remove this old code. Otherwise I'll have to wait till KDE Frameworks 5.
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> Diffs
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>   includes/CMakeLists.txt 4ac2d7c 
>   includes/Thing 952544e 
>   libnepomukcore/CMakeLists.txt 066c898 
>   libnepomukcore/resource/thing.h 2ae3d75 
>   libnepomukcore/resource/thing.cpp 59f2a4d 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105755/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
> 
> Vishesh Handa
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