Dependency Freeze Exception Request for KGet

[Allen Winter]

On Tuesday, June 04, 2013 07:03:09 PM David Narvaez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to request an exception for the Dependency Freeze in the
> case of KGet to add a dependency on Nepomuk Core and Nepomuk Widgets.
>
Since other parts of KDE SC already required both of these afaik,
I don't think this is a problem at all.

So request granted from me. Unless I'm completely missing the point.


> The situation is that KGet already provides Nepomuk integration, which
> provides features like auto tagging and download history. I worked on
> restoring the download history code, which was more or less broken,
> for KDE SC 4.10 but made a note to port the trunk version to Nepomuk2
> to avoid some quirks that will not be fixed in Nepomuk. Unfortunately,
> I had very little time to hack on KDE the last couple of months and I
> just found time to do the port. It would be good to have this go into
> the betas for KDE SC 4.11 to have more time to test, but I'm very
> confident that this code is working since the migration is more or
> less automated by now.
> 
> To clarify, this does not introduce any new feature to KGet, just
> implements the same optional Nepomuk features using Nepomuk2 which is
> actively maintained and improved. I'm CCing Lukas Appelhans, the
> maintainer of KGet (who agrees with introducing this dependency) and
> Vishesh Handa who is maintaining Nepomuk2.
> 
> I am open to any questions or clarifications.
> 
> David E. Narváez
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