From kde-core-devel  Mon Jan 05 17:58:57 2009
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:58:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Request to remove kformula from kdelibs
Message-Id: <200901051858.57330.neundorf () kde ! org>
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On Monday 05 January 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2009-01-05, Sebastian Kügler <sebas@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 January 2009 22:48:05 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Is KFormula part of the kdelibs API or ABI? If so, you can deprecate it,
> > but not remove it.
>
> It looks like it was copied over in revision 862918 from koffice by
> johnflux.
>
> As such, it does not look like it is part of the *released* kdelibs abi
> or api as in kde4.1, so removing it will not break the abi or api from
> any released versions.
>
> But I don't know if anything in kde4.2 expects it to be there.

I don't know the lib, but if apparently everybody agrees that it's not in a 
releasable state and it wasn't part of KDE 4.1, then I'd say it should be 
removed (or disabled) now, it's the last chance or it will have to stay 
compatible for all of KDE 4.x.

Alex