Re: Kopete & KF5

On Friday 11 November 2016 18:03:49 R.Harish Navnit wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 10:36 PM, 4ernov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2016-11-10 20:01 GMT+03:00 Pali Rohár <[email protected]>:
> >> On Monday 07 November 2016 10:35:23 4ernov wrote:
> >>> 2016-11-07 12:15 GMT+03:00 R.Harish Navnit
> >>> <[email protected]>:
> >>> > On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:35 PM, 4ernov <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >> Thanks, Harish. Actually we've discussed with Pali, which
> >>> >> protocols would be useful to be ported and those which are
> >>> >> more or less "alive" were ported. I think, the remaining
> >>> >> could be turned off for now, as
> >>> > 
> >>> > So the remaining are the ones written down in the INSTALL file,
> >>> > right ? I think it's important to document this somewhere. We
> >>> > can't expect a new comer to know these details.
> >>> > 
> >>> > So I just wanted to confirm that we haven't missed(or added any
> >>> > extras) any such protocols in the INSTALL file.
> >>> 
> >>> OK. At current state the following protocols remain unported
> >>> (fail to compile):
> >>> - yahoo
> >>> - sms
> >>> - skype
> >>> - qq
> >> 
> >> IIRC current version of qq is not working anymore.
> >> 
> >>> Following our previous discussion, they could be either turned
> >>> off by default or removed from the tree and CMake files
> >>> completely, if there's low chance they'd be used by anyone.
> >>> There's also IRC protocol, which I've ported as well,
> >> 
> >> IRC is broken and does not work on KDE4 version of Kopete. I would
> >> delete it from git after switching to KF5.
> >> 
> >>> but it fails to link for me for
> >>> unknown reason. Probably, there's something in terms of missing
> >>> moc files. Given that I saw some efforts on updating it here,
> >>> probably my work is a little out of date, so I didn't merge it
> >>> to "kf5".
> >> 
> >> Ok. So current code is in kf5 branch of main kopete repository. I
> >> believe other branches now contains old code and other personal
> >> cloned repositories too...
> > 
> > Yes, I just can confirm, that all my clones and other "kf5-*"
> > branches on official Kopete repository are out of date and "kf5"
> > branch contains my most recent commits. So probably it's most
> > up-to-date and complete in terms of KF5 porting.
> 
> So that's wonderful news. Maybe someone will need to review and test
> the changes in the KF5 branch and get them merged to master.

On reviewboard are some kde3-->kde4-->kf5 patches with unsolved issues: 
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/groups/kopete/?show-closed=0

Do not know if those problems are already fixed in kf5 git branch or 
not, but such changes with open issues on reviewboard cannot be merged 
into master.

> There's an interesting discussion going on in the kde-devel ML's too
> btw, ICYMI : https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=147882011502219&w=2

Already read this and removal of kdepimlibs in this year can be really 
problematic!

But I believe we will have working kf5 port until end of next year...

-- 
Pali Rohár
[email protected]

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