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List:       kdevelop-devel
Subject:    Re: importing XML, CSS, Upload, Xdebug, Execute Script,
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2010-06-07 15:15:36
Message-ID: 201006071715.38777.mail () milianw ! de
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Alexander Shaduri, 07.06.2010:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 16:13:50 +0200
> 
> Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de> wrote:
> > > Thank you both for your answers.
> > > Just one quick question though: Would these plugins be distributed
> > > as part of Quanta, or separately? That is, would I have to have Quanta
> > > installed to use them in KDevelop?
> > 
> > That completely depens on your distributor. They are free to create
> > separate packages for each plugin and use dependencies to install them
> > when the user wants "Quanta" or "KDevelop".
> > 
> > This is out of our reach.
> > 
> > Note: I'd like distributors to do that, as long as they do it correct ;-)
> 
> Well, that mostly depends on how you release the tarballs.
> If a Quanta release tarball contains the plugins, the distributor is
> unlikely to split them out.
> If you release the plugins as separate tarball(s), the distributor
> is likely to follow the same pattern.
> 
> For me, the most logical way of packaging them (including making
> the tarballs) would be something like:
> * kdevplatform (no plugins);
> * kdevelop (contains only plugins that are unusable outside of it);
> * quanta (contains only plugins that are unusable outside of it);
> * kdevplatform-plugins-base (the most common plugins for both);
> * kdevplatform-plugins-webdev (xml, css, ...);
> * (possibly) kdevplatform-plugins-php (unless it's included in webdev).
> etc...

*sigh* again: this is out of our reach and totally depends on the 
distributors. We'll ship tarballs of our repos, nothing else.

> kdevplatform-plugins-webdev could be split further into separate
> plugins, but it would complicate things somewhat for the users.
> kdevplatform-plugins-base could be merged with kdevplatform
> in case having kdevplatform without them makes no sense.
> 
> kdevelop and quanta would have dependencies upon kdevplatform
> and kdevplatform-plugins-base. Additionally, Quanta would depend
> on kdevplatform-plugins-webdev. All the other kdevplatform-plugins-*
> packages would serve as add-ons to both.
> 
> This is just a way I would do it, but of course you may have decided
> something better already.

We won't decide anything, it's the packagers that decide how they do it.


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