[openi18n-im:01165] [proposal] distribute parts of im-sdk separately
Jens Petersen <[email protected]>
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This mail is to propose to start distributing some parts of im-sdk separatedly in forthcoming releases to help ease maintenance and speed up development. I guess the current subdirs and spec-files/ have already suggested this for while, but I think it makes sense to split out most of: gnome-im-switcher, iiimecf, iiimgcf, iiimjcf, iiimqcf, iiimxcf, LEs and libs into separate packages. In a sense quite a few of these already have separate "maintainers" looking after them, so it is largely a matter of just making separate releases of tarballs for each iiimf subproject. Doing this would have a number of advantages: - updates and builds of separate components could be done more easily and quickly - there would be less wasted time: one can update the package of one component easily without having to rebuild the whole of im-sdk - there would be more maintainers and independent releases could be made per need - splitting up the monolithic im-sdk tarball into pieces will help to make it easier for newcomers to find there way round and hopefully lead to more contributions and better maintenance of the main components - it would also lessen the release burden on the current lead maintainers and hopefully allow more releases of components to be made I look forward to hearing views and suggestions of other developers on this, and how we can improve im-sdk development. :) Jens