Hi guys, I'm not really involved, nor do I particularly care what SCM KDE is using - that's not the reason I'm here. I do however hope that we can kill two birds with one stone, and that's the package splitting monster. If it's reasonable to accomplish at the same time as the git transition, it'd be nice to be able to split out the kde applications into separate packages. My motivation for such is two-fold:
1) We have a mess right now with each distro splitting KDE in a more-or-less unique way, except slackware. This makes it hard to recommend packages to users when doing tech support. 2) From a marketing perspective, we'd like to start marketing the various KDE applications independently, which requires that they are easier to obtain as stand-alone apps. In other words, we'd like to be able to offer a download of Okular by itself, for instance, since Okular is good enough to sell itself. I realize that this tips into the release management stuff somewhat as well, but hopefully most of them are on this list. Secondly, I know that it would create a lot of additional work during the transition, but I'd make an argument that it's better to have a major break to workflow once (git+splitting) versus twice (once for git, once later for splitting). Feedback requested. Thiago told me that ossi has already brought this up somewhere, but I haven't grepped through the archives yet. Cheers -- Troy Unrau, B.Sc.G.Sc.(Hons.) Planetary sciences M.Sc. candidate - University of Western Ontario http://cpsx.es.uwo.ca _______________________________________________ Kde-scm-interest mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-scm-interest
