kde/workspace git module rename

[Michael Pyne]

On Thu, July 2, 2015 12:41:32 David Faure 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  The name term "workspace" is obsolete and it's confusing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.

That's doable, I guess. Would be a matter of storing the saved srcdir/builddir 
in the existing persistent data store for each module-name and I don't think 
it would be very difficult from there, if that's something people would 
desire.

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne