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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How to distribute kdedb plugins
From:       Alessandro Praduroux <pradu () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2001-03-28 14:07:11
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Il 15:58, mercoledì 28 marzo 2001, George Staikos ha scritto:
>   I'm really wondering how kdedb plugins will be distributed.  I think it's
> crazy to have kdelibs depend on various databases now too.  Yet some people
> will want it to work with their database.   Maybe does it make sense to
> ship the actual source for the plugins and a Makefile in the binary
> packages and allow the user to generate plugins as needed?  I've seen
> something like this done before but I can't remember where now.  It really
> wouldn't be fun to have to download kdelibs source after installing a
> binary kdelibs packages just so you can compile a kdedb plugin.

distibution-wise, a plugin can be a separate module.
So, you will distribute:

kdelibs v2.2 (including kde-db)
kde-db-mysql (the mysql plugin)
kde-db-posgres ...

This is what actual distros do, I think...

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Pradu

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