kde/workspace git module rename

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:41 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2015 10:36:09 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> 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  The name term "workspace" is obsolete and it's confusing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
>
> One idea would be a kdesrc-build feature that allows it to keep using a
> checkout 'at the old place' while it exists, rather than moving to 'the new
> place'....
>
> I'm pretty sure this already exists with an explicit "put this module in that
> dir" per-module setting, but I mean more generally a global setting that makes
> kdesrc-build conservative about location when stuff is moved, and the
> developer would get things in the new place only after deleting the old
> checkout, if he ever wants to. Or never, if he doesn't delete it ever.

It would be better if kde-src-build didn't adopt the nested tree. It
doesn't buy much and it wouldn't have such problems.

Aleix