On Monday, September 19, 2011 11:51:23 Allen Winter wrote: > On Monday 19 September 2011 10:27:18 AM Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to ask for comment about the plan to update the copy of > > libkactivities (which resides in kdelibs/experimental/kactivities) to its > > latest status. The latest status is BIC compared with the copy in kdelibs, > > but required to build workspace master, and Plasma Active. > > > > Moving towards Frameworks 5, we've split out the kactivities library into > > its own repo (kde:kactivities), but left, for compat reasons, a copy back > > in kdelibs (which now ran out of date). > > > > Initially, I thought we could get away with this, but it causes more > > headache than I think we should bear, especially with kdelibs master > > being frozen, and the changes just touching the experimental lib. > > > > Right now, kde-workspace master depends on these changes, and so does > > Plasma Active. There are no other users that I know of, so the scope of > > this change is rather minimal. > > > > Any objections to this? > > To avoid confusion and having overlapping installations of libkactivities > I think you need to rename the new kactivities. > > Maybe even go so far as to deprecate the old kactivities in kdelibs 4.7 > > kactivities-ng or some-such for the new version
Eeh, the whole point of it being in /experimental/ is so that we do not have to resort to "solutions" like this. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9
