Hi, > On 2015-10-13, Martin Graesslin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: >> I'm not sure whether it's the best solution. The problem you try to fix with >> it is distros breaking packaging. I agree with Martin K that this is a huge >> problem and that it will happen - since the automation of packages I also >> experienced that nobody looks at the output of optional dependencies and the >> packaging breaks. > > I do think that such packagers should be slapped around with a large > trout. Or something. > >> But I'm not sure how this could be done. Anyway, long story short: I think we >> need the other way around. It should be optional by default, but should be >> turned into stricter requirements on the linux distro case. > > There is also another angle to the dependencies. What dependencies can > be enabled/disabled without requiring changes to users of the library. > > Or put it another way. Is the enabling/disabling of a given feature ABI > and API compatible. > > I do think that for features that doesn't impact the API/ABI we should > make it very easy to enable/disable them. Like based on having things > present on the system or not. > > But for things that affects the API/ABI of the library, people should be > explicit about it. At the moment I am only talking about dependencies that would not change the API/ABI but just remove some internal parts to be build or tools to be shipped.
I agree, that if the API/ABI is modified, it should be made explicit, to not introduce incompatibilties too easily. Greetings Christoph -- ----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann --------- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: cullm...@absint.com Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
