From kde-core-devel  Mon May 18 21:01:13 2009
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:01:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC v2: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library
Message-Id: <200905182301.13579.neundorf () kde ! org>
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On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> ...not sure which message exactly to reply to from these big threads, so I
> just take this one.
>
> We have now a libknotificationitem-1.so, which is only a temporary thing,
> i.e. it may/will go away again in the future.
> We discussed on kde-buildsystem:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-buildsystem&m=124187917419874&w=2
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=111529985400006&r=1&w=2
>
> There is now a FindLibKNotificationItem-1.cmake installed by
> kdelibs/experimental/ (it is wrong that package A installs a FindA.cmake
> file, since the point of this file is to find out whether A is installed
> and where).
> So, there are two options: install FindLibKNotificationItem-1.cmake by
> kdelibs, or not install it at all and instead give the project which use
> this experimental temporary library their own copy.
>
> If we install it with kdelibs, we will have to make sure it stays
> reasonably working for the rest of KDE4, which would mean at least that
> once this library doesn't exist anymore, we should still give a proper
> error message ("this library doesn't exist anymore, use the new stuff
> instead, porting goes like that."). These would have to come from the
> FindLibKNotificationItem-1.cmake file, which means we would have to keep
> this file around for the rest of KDE 4.
>
> So the better solution is instead of installing a Find-module for a
> temporary library, give the users of this library their own copy of this
> module. This makes it also very clear that it is unstable etc.
>
> Attached you can find the patch which does that for kdebase/.
> If nobody objects, I'll commit this.
>
> Aaron, can you please take care of the other locations, i.e.
> kdenetwork/kget/
> kdemultimedia/kmix/
> kdepim/korganizer/
> kdepim/akonadi/
> kdeutils/kwallet/
> kdeutils/kgpg/

Ok, I fixed them all (and hope not to haven broken anything, it looks ok so 
far...)

> Once done, kdelibs/experimental/ must not install
> FindLibKNotificationItem-1.cmake anymore.

What would be a good day to do this ?
Next monday ?

Alex