From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 05 16:23:49 2009
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:23:49 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Request to remove kformula from kdelibs
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On Sunday 4. January 2009 22.48.05 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> hereby I request to remove kformula from kdelibs.
>
> The kformula in kdelibs is a copy of the one from KOffice, which is
> alpha-quality and is not meant to be released. Second to that it causes
> problems with KOffice installations.
> It's very important to do this as fast as possible, so that it doesn't get
> released with 4.2
>
> kformula should be either continue as part of KOffice or be moved to
> playground.

I'd like to add my vote to this.

Here are my arguments;
* KFormula has been ported to Qt4 and some work was done following that bef=
ore=20
the maintainer dissapeared in loads of real-life work.
The application is alpha quality and we, in koffice, didn't even consider=20
releasing it in the upcoming 2.0
With several failing unit tests and no commits for ages I find it very weir=
d=20
that this could be moved into kdelibs as the requirements are a bit more=20
strict there with BC and SC.

* KFormula is an application, not a library. KFormula has made a name for=20
itself and googling will lead you to koffice. Reusing it in kdelibs in a wa=
y=20
that the koffice people find curious is not helping our how people see=20
koffice. At minimum it should be renamed.

* Someone copied a big part of koffice and didn't even send an email to the=
=20
koffice mailinglists (that I can find) to inform us and now we are asked ho=
w=20
to fix the mess of having two parts of kde-svn installing the same files. O=
k,=20
this is not an argument against having it in kdelibs, but, really, why was=
=20
this not discussed? (I can't find any mails on kde-core-devel either!)

* I heard via the grapevine that the reason for this move is that some apps=
=20
want to use this codebase; which I think is great.  More users means more=20
fixes, right?  So far the last work was done on Mar 15 2008, so we could=20
serious use the manpower.
If the above is the reason for the duplication I suggest moving the app to =
a=20
new top-level module like "odflib" (similar to kdepimlib) which we intended=
=20
to make after the koffice2.0.0 release is out.
http://lists.kde.org/?l=3Dkde-core-devel&m=3D117900834226961&w=3D2

Thanks for considering this request ! :)
=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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