Re: Fwd: Re: Calligra translations are enabled

On 15 December 2010 20:07, Cornelius Schumacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 December 2010 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>
>> There's also a question if the desire "All KDE applications should be
>> co-installable without conflicts." is realistic and if this is the
>> purpose of KDE Project, which is not about deployment but about
>> delivery of the software in source code form (except for KDE on
>> Windows and partially KDE on Mac, no idea about Solaris now). I am
>> asking this because I think there's no realistic solution if we add
>> "3rd party KDE apps" to the set of "KDE apps". Moreover, nobody can
>> block development of a fork of any app within the KDE infrastructure,
>> even conflicting each other.
>
> We can't prevent external parties to create conflicting installations, but
> within the KDE community it should be possible to avoid these conflicts,
> shouldn't it? This is part of the high technical quality we are striving for.
> Even with source code this is a problem, and having no installation conflicts
> makes distributor's life easy, which always has been one of our goals.
>
> Technically it's easy to avoid it by renaming conflicting files. It is some
> work, but certainly possible.

Example:
Why would we rename, say kexi_version.h?
It will appear both in KOffice 2.3 and Calligra 2.4.
Or any kexi library?
If there exists KOffice 2.4, it will be the first version without Kexi
(this the conflict will be removed, but this is a side effect).

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
 Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
 KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)
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