From kdevelop-devel  Wed Oct 22 06:25:22 2003
From: "Falk Brettschneider" <falk.brettschneider () gmx ! de>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:25:22 +0000
To: kdevelop-devel
Subject: Re: [despammed] kdevelop.kdevelop
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdevelop-devel&m=106680572815794

Hendrik, the last official KDevelop version was KDevelop-2.1. And there, it
was exactly as I want it back again now. The project files of KDevelop-2.x
don't contain user-specific settings, all such stuff is swapped out to the
appropriate .kdevses file or kdeveloprc. 
The feature of the project file to not to be user-specific (and therefore
ready for cvs-management) got lost from KDevelop-2 to KDevelop-3. So at present
this is some kind of a regression. And I think the user acceptance depends
on such simple questions.
If you mean .kdevelop format changes during the past alpha versions of
KDevelop-3, in my opinion, back-compatibility to old alpha versions doesn't make
sense, as it just blows up the source code, unnecessarily.

CU
F@lk

> So here is a general question about making changes regarding project
> files:
> How important is backward compatibility with existing project files? Say 
> some settings are moved from .kdevelop to .kdevses; is it acceptable 
> that users existing settings in their .kdevelop files get lost/ ignored 
> in the process and they have to redo their settings? Or should there be 
> code that migrates settings if an old style .kdevelop file is encountered?
> 
> Hendrik
> 
> PS: I posted a patch a couple of days ago hoping that somebody would 
> review and submit it to CVS, but did not get any feedback on the list or 
> per email. I assume nobody read my posting to the part where I asked for 
> this. So, could somebody please submit it. Alternatively: what is the 
> procedure for getting access to the CVS?
> 
> 
> F@lk Brettschneider wrote:
> > Hi!
> > Seems someone has removed the .kdevelop project file for KDevelop3 from 
> > CVS.
> > I think it should be in CVS again since it's a proof of concept if that 
> > file is able to be shared in a team development environment.
> > 
> > Any user-specific stuff should be moved to the common session file 
> > (~/.kde/share/config/kdeveloprc) or to the project-specific session file
> 
> > (.kdevses). Further details on this are at the bottom of white paper 
> >
>
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/kdevelop/html/howToAddPlugins.html 
> > ..
> > 
> > Any objections for a reanimation?
> > 
> > CU
> > F@lk

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