adding kwebkitpart to KDE SC

[David Faure]

On Sunday 25 March 2012 23:40:28 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Diumenge, 25 de març de 2012, a les 23:29:14, David Faure va escriure:
> > On Sunday 25 March 2012 08:14:05 Allen Winter wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 March 2012 8:16:28 PM David Faure wrote:
> > > > Hello release team,
> > > > 
> > > > How do we get kwebkitpart (separate git module) released together with
> > > > the
> > > > rest of KDE SC (rather than "on its own schedule" as it was supposed
> > > > to
> > > > be, in extragear)?
> > > > 
> > > > Moving to kde-baseapps would do the job, but this requires replaying
> > > > history, and will create trouble if we ever want to modularize it out
> > > > again.
> > > > 
> > > > So is there a simple way to mark it as "part of KDE SC", so that it's
> > > > released as a separate tarball, but together with the KDE SC releases?
> > > 
> > > Why not treat kwebkitpart exactly like we do konsole?
> > > konsole lives in its own repo outside of kde-baseapps, but is
> > > conceptually
> > > part of kde-baseapps.
> > 
> > That would be perfect, indeed.
> > 
> > > Todo:
> > > 1) In the projects.kde.org database, we would need to make kwebkitpart a
> > > child of kde-baseapps.
> > 
> > Who can do that? Do I need to file a sysadmin request, maybe?
> 
> Well, we'd need some discussion first, as if we really want that, should we?
> At least agreement from the kde-baseapps maintainer? That according to
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Release_Team is... noone. Great stuff :-)
> 
> I'll go back to my cave now.

LOL.

Well, it was discussed between the kwebkitpart maintainer (Dawit) and the 
konqueror maintainer (me). If this was still the cvs or svn days, I would have 
imported kwebkitpart into the konqueror subdir, and it would be done already.
With git I see value in keep the repo separate, hence the discussion here.

But I'm not sure which big debate you want around this -- it's the practical 
solution from a technical point of view, to prevent lots of ugly "ifdef 
KDE_VERSION..." when adding new integration stuff to all of kdelibs/kparts, 
khtml, kwebkitpart and konqueror. By releasing it all together, we don't have 
to always add ifdefs and fallbacks for older versions of kdelibs.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5