Re: [Klibido-devel] kde4

[Stefan <ste...@gm...>]

On Thursday 03 January 2008 14:54:23 Stefan wrote:
> On Thursday 03 January 2008 14:25:27 Bauno wrote:
> > On Thursday 3 January 2008 11:39:23 Stefan wrote:
> > > I don't think porting to kde4, refactoring kde3 version and then
> > > porting those changes is not a good idea, because refactoring probably
> > > changes most of the code which we'll than have to port twice.
> >
> > Of course, this is the downside...
> >
> > > Also, the kde4 version
> > > needs some refactoring, like model/view programming and I don't really
> > > like the idea of 2 refactorings.
> >
> > Me neither. So you think it'd better if the two versions evolved
> > independently for code? Only "ideas" should be ported between the two
> > versions? :)
> >
> > > I also noticed the code is messy, so maybe we can better go for a
> > > complete rewrite and only copy back some usefull stuff which doesn't
> > > require much changes.
> >
> > Be aware that rewriting != refactoring, and usually takes much longer.
> >
> > > Does KJove have a cvs/svn/git/... somewhere so we can look at it?
> >
> > Nope...and I don't think the code can be made public right now...too
> > embarassing.
> >
> > > What do we do with version control? I don't care if we stick with cvs
> > > or move to svn or git, but I'd like to check in my changes as fast as
> > > possible if we go for the port.
> >
> > KLibido is on cvs.sourceforge.net, and I think it should remain there.
> > KLibido4 can be placed anywhere: in the same repository as a subdir, or
> > as another module, or on SVN or git. Dunno.
> > Questions: when will KDE4 be released? When will it be "universally"
> > adopted? When do you think we could stop maintaining the kde3 version?
> > Ok, I know, in fact I already stopped maintaining it a year ago or so :-\
> > ;-]
>
> kde4 is tagged tomorrow and released next week. Universally adopted, no
> idea, but not in the next few months I think (pure speculation of course).
> You can stop maintaining the kde3 version any time you want of course, but
> maybe the first release of the kde4 version is a good time? When we reach
> this point I think kde 4.0.1 should be out and be more stable and widely
> adopted.
>
> Maybe it is smart to keep the 2 versions in the same repo and if cvs is
> giving us any problems we can always move to somewhere else? There are
> cvs2git tools so this shouldn't be much of a problem.
>
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I continued porting 0.2.5 and I think most of it is done. About half of the 
files compile and the other half is mostly small stuff. Or at least the part 
make -k gives errors about.
I did a diff between cvs and 0.2.5 and the bigger changes are only in a few 
files.

I gave refactoring a second thought and I think it won't make much sense for 
0.2.5 because I don't think many new features are added to this version (or 
am I wrong?). I don't like to refactor the kde4 version before we have a 
working because bug fixing will take much longer because you'll need to run 
it to find bugs :p

I'll stop for today, but I'll hope to have it compiling (running??) tomorrow.