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List:       kde-frameworks-devel
Subject:    Re: plasma-framework in kdereview
From:       Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2014-04-25 13:46:36
Message-ID: 2547821.PoXDtxs1Hq () whitebase ! usersys ! redhat ! com
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On Friday 25 of April 2014 15:43:39 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 25 April 2014 15:24:50 Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > On Friday 25 of April 2014 15:14:46 Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> > > Moving plasma-framework to frameworks means that we will loose
> > > flexibility
> > > since we won't be able to break api/abi.
> > > 
> > > So, do we really have to move it there? Imho would be prudent to keep it
> > > somewhere else where api/abi stability is not mandatory.
> > > 
> > > Also, right now there is only one user of this framework
> > > (plasma-desktop),
> > > I would wait until at least we have 2 more shells based on it to commit
> > > to any stability.
> > 
> > Wasn't/isn't libplasma supposed to be used also by other applications
> > (amarok was the main user I guess)?
> 
> It always was.
> wether they want to use it or not it's their problem
> 
> and this attitude of "pest dependency" deeply bothers me and makes me not
> much really motivated to keep working on it.
> 
> yes, it has a lot of dependencies and is not optimal.
> f i would have it primarly as ligthtweight libraries i would split it at
> lest in 3-4 parts, but i think it's better preventing the fragmentation of
> little libraries in this case


No, no, I was not talking against 3rd-party usage - it's just another point 
for API and ABI stability :)

Ciao
-- 
Luigi
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