On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:34:23PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> >> >> 1) adjust kde3 with /usr/local/kde3/* (i.e include, libs, bin) + have
> >> >> kde4 with /usr/local/kde4/*. both independent. is it too hard to add
> >> >> this for kde3?
> >> > I don't know. You tell me.
> >>
> >> Not too hard for KDE 4. But I still hope to find better way than this
> >> "/opt"-ism.
> >>
> >> My personal goal is to make KDE 4 co-build with KDE 3, and to make
> >> libs and pimlibs from KDE 4 co-exist with KDE 3. But I didn't even
> >> started moving in that direction, there is too much other work.
> >
> > I did a bit of that work, like actually moving the kde3 libs out of the
> > way into /usr/local/lib/kde3... having kde3 use libtool also helps picking
> > up the right libraries (I have to fix the one kde package that still wants
> > gnu libtool though).
> >
> > I won't object to *finishing* that in tree *if we have a plan*. That means,
> > preferably import the kde4 parts after the directories are mapped out so
> > that there's little conflict with kde3.
> >
> >> I have some crazy ideas like porting KDE3 to CMake, but before talking
> >> loud about them sound I should try to try starting myself.
> >
> > No, that's crazy. You said trinity was hard to do. Changing kde3 to cmake
> > more or less requires redoing what the kde people did between kde3 and kde4
> > and that was a LOT of work.
> >
> > *most* of the autoconf stuff in kde3 is reasonably easy to move around. It
> > may require testing, obviously...
>
> Ok its option 1: separate out kde4 and kde3 to use different folders
> under /usr/local both for simultaneous building and running. I will
> submit the ports needed for kde4 and then Vadim/me finish KDE 4.9.3 by
> relocating to different folders in /usr/local (4.9.2 doesn't have
> working pim). Then before the kde4 merge, the kde3 stuff has to be
> shifted to different folder.
Please, dont say fuck to the FHS. New toplevel dirs under /usr/local
should be used only for a very valid reason. We have lib/ bin/ include/
share/ for a reason; so try to use lib/kde{,4} (as the current x11/kde4
port does unless i'm mistaken), include/kde{,4}, share/doc/kde{,4},
bin/kde{,4} for the ones which conflict, etc..
And do it in both kdes at the same time. This is not "oh i'll look into
it later" stuff.
Landry
