kde/workspace git module rename
Jonathan Riddell
jr at jriddell.org
Thu Jul 2 09:36:09 UTC 2015
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:59:41PM +0200, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 June 2015 12:01:47 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > projects.kde.org has a module called kde/workspace that's used for
> > Plasma bits. The name term "workspace" is obsolete and it's confusing
> > having it under "kde" where all the applications modules are. I'd
> > like to rename it to "plasma". I guess this will break kde-srcbuild
> > and maybe other build scripts. Is the tidying up worth the hassle?
>
> It will not just break kdesrc-build but also the local src code and build
> trees on our developer's systems. E.g. I have the structure setup with kdesrc-
> build and imported the projects into kdevelop using the src, build and install
> structure generated by kdesrc-build.
>
> This change would mean dropping all projects from kdevelop and reimport them,
> having to deal with branches not being moved to the new git structure, etc.
> etc. I expect that this would cost me several hours of work on each system (I
> have a build tree on three to four devices). Assuming that other plasma devs
> have similar setups we waste several person days just with shuffling
> repositories around.
>
> So given that I think this is not worth the hassle.
ok I'll drop the idea then
Jonathan
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