On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cu...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > What do you think about splitting the kactivities repository into these: > - library (would remain in the kactivities repo) > - daemon (kactivities-service) > - workspace stuff (kcm, doplhin file linking, activities:/ kio, something > else?) > > The reason why this came up again is that the library follows the > requirements > for frameworks regarding supported compilers and platforms, while the rest > is > *nix-only. (the trigger for the mail are the attempts Nicolás made to > compile > the service with msvcc which does not like templates that much*) > > This would make kactivities a (sort of) tier1 framework since it would only > depend on Qt, and would have an optional runtime dep (the library behaves > properly when the service is not present). This would allow any > application to > support activities in Plasma, and not taint its code with ifdefs. > > The alternative would be to separate only the library and keep the daemon > and > the workspace stuff together. That would work as well. > > > Cheerio, > Ivan > > * there is a flag which allows building only the library at the moment, but > that seems not enough. > Maybe you can move those to plasma-workspace then and leave only the framework in kactivities. Aleix
