El Diumenge, 8 de febrer de 2015, a les 00:29:26, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau va escriure: > Hi, > > Calligra, Massif-Visualizer, KMyMoney (and perhaps more) make use of KDAB's > nice offer of their KDChart in the GPLv2 licensing variant. But as there are > no real public releases of KDChart, all the projects have copied a dump of > KDChart into their code repositories, updating now and then to newer > versions of KDChart. Which is anything but perfect. > > To improve things, after some talk with KDABians it was decided to create a > KDE repo with a KDE-fied fork of KDChart, based on their latest Qt5ied > version. So all FLOSS Qt5-based projects have a single place to-go-to for > nice charting. Which would be centrally updated now and then. Still not > perfect, but an improvement over the current situation. > To meet the KDE repo requirements, KDAB has also extended the license to > GPLv2+ for this dump :)
Thanks KDABians for this. If this is basically a copy&paste from the existing code we're already shipping i have no objection, though you should probably get someone with CMake knowledge to review (and kill that autogen.py and g++.pri?) Cheers, Albert > > That repo is named "kdiagram" and has just been moved into "kdereview". > Final destination is "extragear/graphics", as other charting/diagram > software also is located there. > > After the initial code dump in the repo, work has been done to convert the > buildsystem from qmake to cmake/ECM and KDE-fy the code in general. But no > real changes besides renaming/rebranding have been done to the codebase, so > this should be quickly usable by all FLOSS programs with their own copy of > KDChart so far, and just need a few s/KDChart/KChart/ etc. for adaption. > > KDChart actually consists of two libraries, "kdchart" and "kdgantt", which > have been made explicitly separate libs in KDiagram, and named "kchart" and > "kgantt" there (and thus the repo "kdiagram" instead of "kchart", to not > hide the gantt lib). Not yet clear if those libs would be merged more one > day, so for now staying with a single repo, like the original, instead of > splitting up into two repos by the two libs. > > Ideally a first release of kdiagram (libs kchart, kgantt) is done before the > porting work of Calligra to Qt5 starts somewhen end of February, so that > port can rely on the then external libs from the start. For that the > schedule now is: > > tagging first release: February 16th > moving to "Extragear/Graphics": February 22th > release first release: February 22th > > Please do a > git clone kde:kdiagram > and give the libs some build testing (also go for all the compiled example > and test apps) and review, especially the buildsystem. And perhaps prepare > your FLOSS apps to use it already. This should give you KChart resp. KGantt > in your CMakeLists.txt file: > > find_package(KChart "2.6.0" REQUIRED) > target_link_libraries(myflossapp KChart) > > find_package(KGantt "2.6.0" REQUIRED) > target_link_libraries(myflossapp KGantt) > > Cheers > Friedrich
