kio-extras and the KF5/KF6 period

[Luigi Toscano]

David Redondo ha scritto:
> Am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2023, 00:02:18 CEST schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
>> kio-extras provides plugins for kio.
>>
>> So KF5 applications want a KF5 kio-extras and KF6 applications want a KF6
>> kio- extras.
>>
>> If we're going to support a period on which we ship both Kf5 and KF6 based
>> applications we need to:
>>
>> Make sure kf5 and kf6 are coinstallable.
>>
>> a) release two tarballs, one for each KF
>> b) release one tarball that compiles both for kf5 and kf6
>> c) just release the kf6 tarball, stop releasing the kf5 tarball but ask
>> distributions to still install it
>>
>>
> 
> Harald and I prototyped another solution to build a Qt
>  5 and Qt 6 version out of the same repo and employed it on
> plasma-integration: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/
> merge_requests/91
> This has the advantage of having the code for both versions in 
> the same place and the Qt5 version being not stuck on some old
>  version. Also the translations can be shared automatically since 
> they use the same catalog.
> There is one case  where Qt uses unversioned targets and one
> unversioned ecm variable but cadavidn be easily worked around.


This is good for example for phonon, and in the future and in retrospective
for stuff like qtcurve, but not much for kio-extras, where the codebases
started to diverge.


-- 
Luigi