On Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:09:59 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > Move kconfigwidgets to tier3 > > > > > > When I suggested tiers, I proposed that tier2 frameworks could depend on > other tier2 frameworks. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/67458/focus=67520 > http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/KDELibsModifications&oldid > =55633 > > The reason for that is that the difference between one common-origin > dependency and zero common-origin dependencies is huge, whereas the > difference between one common-origin dependency and two common-origin > dependencies is tiny by comparison, from a pov of using something. > > The common-origin point is important because it means that KF5::Something > version X.Y depends on KF5::Dependency version X.Y, which are released at > the same time. It doesn't matter that KArchive depends on zlib, because it > can probably work with a zlib released long ago and already widely > distributed. > > When the repos are split, the difference between tier2 and tier3 will > matter even less. The kconfigwidgets framework will depend on another > framework which happens to have a tier2 label. That does not mean that > kconfigwidgets should get a tier3 label. > > I suggest moving kconfigwidgets to tier2/ instead, and being clear that it > is ok for tier2 to depend on tier2.
http://dot.kde.org/sites/dot.kde.org/files/KDE%20Frameworks%205%20clean.png This diagram says that tier2 can't depend on tier2, and that's also how I understand it. The email and wiki changes you quote both predate the Randa meeting, so I think this has simply been revisited. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel