From kde-core-devel  Mon Dec 15 14:52:49 2014
From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:52:49 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: libkgeomap
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I would just to indicate that libkgeomap is already ported to KF5, as
libkipi, libkexiv2, libkface, and libkdcraw. see this wiki page for
details :

https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Digikam/CodingSprint2014#KF5.2FQt5_Port_Status

Gilles Caulier

2014-12-14 18:57 GMT+01:00 Tobias Leupold <tobias.leupold@web.de>:
> Hi list!
>
> recently, I requested to move libkface from extragear/libs to to
> kdegraphics/libs, because KPhotoAlbum began to use it as the first non-Digikam
> program. This has been done in the meantime and now, we have a Digikam-
> independent libkface release to be found in unstable/applications (which can
> be used by distributors to create Digikam-independent libkface packages).
> Thanks again for the move :-)
>
> Recently, we started to use another library from Digikam in KPhotoAlbum,
> libkgeomap. Would it be possible (of course after some review etc.) to do the
> same with this library, for the same reasons? Probably, kdegraphics/libs would
> not be the right place for libkgeomap, as it depends on Marble, but kde-edu.
>
> Gilles Caulier from Digikam recently suggested that I asked for that, because
> apparently a lot of patching has been done to libkgeomap so that a stand-alone
> library release would be possible. I'm sure that the libkgeomap maintainers
> (esp. Gilles Caulier) will gladly change what has to be changed to get an
> independent release, and we would get the same benefits of it as the libkface
> move made.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers, Tobias