Dropping the svn kio from kdesdk-kioslaves

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Wed Jan 4 23:20:54 UTC 2017


El dimarts, 20 de desembre de 2016, a les 10:40:44 CET, Christian Ehrlicher va 
escriure:
> Am 16.12.2016 um 11:32 schrieb Kevin Funk:
> > If the SVN kioslave is standalone, wouldn't it make more sense to actually
> > keep it in a separate repository/package? So users who just want the
> > Dolphin integration can just use that?
> > 
> > Wouldn't it make more sense to move your kioslave implementation into
> > kdesdk- kioslaves, replacing the older copy?
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether Albert just wants to kill the repository or he's just
> > phasing old unmaintained software. In case of the latter, updating the
> > copy
> > with the better maintained version probably makes more sense.
> 
> I took a look into kdesdk-kioslaves - the code for svn there is
> completely different from kdesvn kioslave. Therefore I would suggest to
> remove kdesdk-kioslaves/svn because I won't maintain two different
> implementations for one protocol.
> A distro packager can separate the kdesvn kioslave into a separate
> package, at least this is what I would expect looking at the kdesvn code.

Since noone really complained I went ahead and removed the svn kioslave from 
kdesdk-kioslaves, the kdesvn kioslave seems to work for the lightweight svn 
browsing i'd expect people to use a kioslave for.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> Christian




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