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On Wednesday 10 November 2010 14:04:56 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > I mean, with a set of libs with dependencies cut down as is the case for
> > Tablet or even more the Mobile profile, doesn't that go a long way to
> > making the libraries easier usable by other projects ?
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> Perhaps. Kevins work seems to split the kde development platform into
> pieces, but doesn't separate functional libraries from platformy bits.

Exactly. It helps but that's work I'm doing under a "keep the BC as much as=
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possible" mantra as I didn't want to start a KDE5. BICs happen from time to=
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time, and that's the small delta between the ABI of Desktop and Mobile=20
profiles.

> It is more modularization though and less interdependence though, so
> definitely complimentary.

Yes, I really see it as preliminary work toward a KDE5 (as stated in one of=
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the last slides of my talk). It's still not KDE5 work (see the mantra above=
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but it'll definitely help when the time comes (at least I hope so).

Now, seeing how painless the libkutils splitting happened... It might be=20
possible to explode our current libraries into smaller ones if needed, and=
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that's something we could do today. The problems happen when we need to=20
regroup classes which are in different libraries today, but splitting seems=
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doable to me (I've a couple of such splits on my internal TODO, but it's=20
unscheduled work).

Regards.
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K=E9vin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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