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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: OpenAL and SndFile as hard dependency for Granatier
From:       Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-05-13 5:17:22
Message-ID: 87d3jngowt.fsf () gmail ! com
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Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday 13 May 2011 12:27:01 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>> Ian Wadham <iandw.au@gmail.com> writes:
>> > What I guess Mathias and I really need is to declare a strong
>> > *functional* dependency on OpenAL and SndFile, without clobbering the
>> > build, but making sure that the packager or builder sees that something
>> > is missing. How can that be done?
>> 
>> On the build side, do you need more than marking it as an optional
>> dependency so that it will be shown as not found when CMake lists which
>> packages were found or not?
>> 
> That depends on who reads the list of not-found packages and when ...
> After all, the list *is* headed by the word "optional" in capital
> letters ...

From what I understand, the main concern is getting packagers to notice
these new dependencies. They are much more likely to check the output
than a normal user who is building from source.

> On a scale of 0 to 9, between "optional" and "required", I would rate sound
> as 7 or 8 in this case, but how can you tell CMake that?

I thought your intention was to make OpenAL/SndFile optional
dependencies in that it would still be possible to build kdegames
without them. There is no way to tell CMake they are semi-required :)

>> You can also mail the kde-packager mailing list and warn the folks there
>> about these changes.
>>
> Good idea, I would like to do that.  But is it a public KDE list?  I do not
> see it on https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/

No, it's not a public mailing list:
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-packager. You can send a mail
to it and wait for it to be approved by an admin, though.
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