On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Kevin Ottens <er...@kde.org> wrote: > Hello, > > On Monday 07 April 2014 23:27:33 Alex Merry wrote: > > Aleix wanted a separate thread for this, so here it is. > > > > The current runtime splitting plan says that ioslaves should be in three > > places: core ones (file, http, etc) in kio, other useful ones (archive, > > bookmarks, etc) in "kioslaves", and curiosities (cgi, finger) in > > kioslave-extra. > > > > In my view, this is too many repos (and I apologise for not bringing it > > up sooner, but the last I'd seen on the list, only one repo outside kio > > was being suggested, and I hadn't realised the plan had changed). > > > > Moving things between repos is a *pain*, and I think Ben and Albert have > > a point about being over-eager to split things up. > > Yes, some of the splits I see in workspace land leave me wondering what > were > the rationale for them. But I can smell problems down the line. > > To clarify, I'm not necessarily a huge fan of the one repository per > framework > as we did *but* there was a justification for it. We're trying to target an > extra audience which would benefit from it. So that's a necessary evil for > KDE > Frameworks if you want. I don't see that for the workspace. > > > In this case, I think we should just have core things in kio, and > everything > > else in kioslaves (or call it kio-extra-slaves, or whatever). Everything > in > > that package should be optional, and distros can split it up if they > really > > want, but I don't think we should split it. > > I totally agree there. > > Cheers. > -- > Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net > > KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel > > The rationale is that we should never need to pull a Plasma Workspace to get an _application_ running.
Aleix
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