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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: splitting up kdebase in git
From: Allen Winter <winter () kde ! org>
Date: 2011-01-18 22:05:52
Message-ID: 201101181705.53000.winter () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 18 January 2011 4:34:21 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all ...
>
> when looking at migrating kdebase to git (thanks to Ian Monroe for his efforts
> there and for the support of KO Gmbh that helped make that happen), it was
> decided to split it up into chunks which are:
>
> * kdebase runtime (git -> kderuntime)
> * kdebase workspace (git -> kdeworkspace)
could we do kde-runtime and kde-workspace instead?
only because it's traditional (and because we already have git kdepim-runtime)
> * kdebase apps, minus konsole (git -> kdebase-apps)
I guess kde-apps won't work.
maybe kde-baseapps?
> * konsole
>
> runtime / workspace / apps as divisions already reflects changes made starting
> with 4.0. even now in svn, code in one of those is not allowed to have a
> compile time dependency on code in the other two. this is why, for instance,
> folderview is in kdebase/apps/: it relies on libkonq which is also in there.
>
> kdebase-apps is being kept together because there is a lot of code sharing
> between the projects there, particularly in the form of file management code
> in libkonq. it was determined by the maintainers of each that there was
> nothing but a loss of efficiency and increased pain to be gained from
> splitting them up.
>
> konsole, however, is a significant application in its own right that doesn't
> actually share code with the rest of the apps in there (besides Qt, kdelibs
> and runtime, of course ;). so it is getting its own repo.
>
> if there are any questions / concerns / thoughts on this, please provide your
> feedback now as we'd like to make the move as soon as possible once 4.6.0 is
> released.
>
> also, please keep all relevant discussion on kde-core-devel rather than CC'ing
> all the lists; i just CC'd the lists so everyone there who may not be on k-c-d
> as well receives the information :)
>
Having konsole, ksysguard, etc in their own git repo is fine.
But they still will reside logically inside kdebase-apps
For example on api.kde.org the EBN and LXR.
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