Harald Sitter ha scritto: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 2:58 PM Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> > wrote: >> >> David Redondo ha scritto: >>> Am Mittwoch, 17. Mai 2023, 00:02:18 CEST schrieb Albert Astals Cid: >>>> kio-extras provides plugins for kio. >>>> >>>> So KF5 applications want a KF5 kio-extras and KF6 applications want a KF6 >>>> kio- extras. >>>> >>>> If we're going to support a period on which we ship both Kf5 and KF6 based >>>> applications we need to: >>>> >>>> Make sure kf5 and kf6 are coinstallable. >>>> >>>> a) release two tarballs, one for each KF >>>> b) release one tarball that compiles both for kf5 and kf6 >>>> c) just release the kf6 tarball, stop releasing the kf5 tarball but ask >>>> distributions to still install it >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Harald and I prototyped another solution to build a Qt >>> 5 and Qt 6 version out of the same repo and employed it on >>> plasma-integration: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/ >>> merge_requests/91 >>> This has the advantage of having the code for both versions in >>> the same place and the Qt5 version being not stuck on some old >>> version. Also the translations can be shared automatically since >>> they use the same catalog. >>> There is one case where Qt uses unversioned targets and one >>> unversioned ecm variable but cadavidn be easily worked around. >> >> >> This is good for example for phonon, and in the future and in retrospective >> for stuff like qtcurve, but not much for kio-extras, where the codebases >> started to diverge. > > I don't quite follow, as you can see it uses two different source > directories cause the goal was to split qt5 and 6 implementations due > to impl divergence. So in point of fact divergence is intended and > possible. We basically have two source directories in the same branch > and build. We believe a similar technique can be used with repos with > little divergence just as well as for ones with huge divergence.
The situation of kio-extras is a bit different, as the translations are not fully shared between the two branches and I'd prefer to keep them separate. Full blessing for other repositories where the difference is minimal. -- Luigi
