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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Redefining kdelibs and kdebase
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-09-12 19:22:07
Message-ID: 200509122122.07467.neundorf () kde ! org
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Hi,

On Sunday 28 August 2005 10:56, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2005 21:44, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > How it would look in svn:
> > > kdelibs/kde3support/
> > > kdelibs/kdecomponents/
> > > kdelibs/kdeframework/
> > >
> > > kdeworkspace/
> > >
> > > kdebase/
> > >
> > >
> > > Even though componants, compat and framework are seperate packages
> > > they could be in kdelibs.  So end the end we would only be making one
> > > new module.
> >
> > If there is an effort of making a split then please show it as separate
> > modules too, otherwise it is nearly useless to make this discussion.
>
> I am the one who suggested subdirs in kdelibs instead of three new modules.
> The reason is that this way we keep the good old habit of: building KDE is
> as simple as "build+install kdelibs, then compile any other KDE code you
> want". Everyone is used to that, and if we change to "build+install three
> modules", anyone who is not reading this discussion will be completely lost
> as to how to build KDE. The idea is that release this code as three
> tarballs though,
> kdelibs-components (*)
> kdelibs-framework
> kdelibs-kde3support

Just coming back from my 3-week vacation (which was the reason I couldn't 
attend akademy) I have to say this sounds very nice. We discussed this topic 
already several times during the KDE 3 lifecycle and now it finally comes 
true :-)

> (and kdelibs-workspace IMHO, for workspace libs; libs for kicker applets,
> screensavers etc.)

I wouldn't put these libs under kdelibs/ since they belong to the "workspace".

Bye
Alex
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