Hello,
I have been developing Grantlee for over 10 years with contributions
from a community of others mostly connected with KDE.
https://github.com/steveire/grantlee
I have not been able to maintain a reasonable release cadence of
Grantlee in the last few years (last release 3 years ago), so I'm
submitting Grantlee to KDE Review with the aim of addition to KDE
Frameworks.
Grantlee consists of two libraries,
* Grantlee::Templates is a text-template system based on Qt introspection
* Grantlee::TextDocument is a builder design pattern implementation for
processing QTextDocuments
Grantlee is already a dependency of several KDE applications, but it is
treated as an external dependency. This change would make it a Tier 1
KDE Framework.
$ apt-cache rdepends libgrantlee-templates5
libgrantlee-templates5
Reverse Depends:
libgrantlee5-dev
skrooge
rocs
libkf5pimcommon5abi3
libkf5messageviewer5abi5
libkf5messageviewer-plugins
libkf5kaddressbookgrantlee5
libkf5grantleetheme5
libkf5grantleetheme-plugins
libkf5calendarutils5abi1
libkf5calendarutils-bin
kdepim-addons
kjots
khelpcenter
kdevelop52-libs
kdevelop
$ apt-cache rdepends libgrantlee-textdocument5
libgrantlee-textdocument5
Reverse Depends:
libgrantlee5-dev
libkf5pimtextedit5abi3
libkf5messageviewer5abi5
libkf5messagecomposer5abi2
kjots
My intention is to make one more release of Grantlee myself before
turning it into a KDE Frameworks repository.
I don't think much needs to change in terms of the C++ code. The
namespace would remain Grantlee:: etc, so that releases made from KDE
Frameworks will be binary compatible with previous Grantlee5 releases.
However, I've not been putting time into making releases (The last
release was over 3 years ago).
This is a proposal to submit Grantlee as a KF5 repository. It should be
a natural addition to the KF5 ecosystem. This move will mean:
* Grantlee will be released regularly as part of KF5
* All KDE contributors will have the commit bit to make changes
* My guilt about lack of releases will be reduced
Grantlee::Templates depends on QtQml for script bindings (can be
disabled at build time).
Grantlee::TextDocument depends only on QtGui.
I'm not quite familiar with what needs to happen to complete this
transition. It seems to me that something along these lines ought to do it:
* I make one last release of Grantlee myself
* Set up a new KDE repository for me to push to
* Integrate KF5 buildsystem into Grantlee (ECM for example)
* Set up CI for that repository
* Set up doxygen generation for the repository
* Transfer grantlee.org to KDE sysadmin
Grantlee already has ki18n integration in the form of a library
implementing Grantlee abstractions:
https://cgit.kde.org/grantleetheme.git/about/
Initial reviews and comments welcome!
Thanks,
Stephen.
