Am Sonntag, 22. Dezember 2019, 17:08:15 CET schrieb Stephen Kelly: > On 21/12/2019 23:55, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > > Perhaps joining the "Release Service" (formerly known as "KDE > > Applications") is a better place then, it also contains a set of > > libraries already. That would serve the purpose of having releases > > happening regularly. > The goals of making Grantlee a Framework are: > > * Make more frequent releases which don't depend on me > > * Make it more easy for others to contribute to development > > > I think at the point that renaming happens, the name Grantlee will > disappear, and we'll have two libraries (KF5::TextDocument and > KF5::TextTemplates or so in CMake and probably removing the C++ namespace).
There is no need to drop the name "Grantlee", IMHO that is a well-known product/solution identifier by now for the needs it solves. There are other non-generic-name identifiers in KDE Frameworks (Sonnet, Purpose, Prison, Attica, Solid, Baloo, Syndication) instead of "K" + generic descriptive english name, so it is also nothing new in concept. KF5::TextDocument & KF5::TextTemplates as target/lib names e.g. would be less useful, as they could describe a lot of things and would need to be longer to be more exact :) So having "Grantlee" as easily searchable term which also is properly defined what solution scope it is about can be actually seen as an advantage. > I think all of that should be done together and I don't think that > should be done until compatibility is broken to become Qt6-based (KF6). > > If joining the Release Service helps reach the goals, and there is > consensus that Grantlee can't be a framework without partial renaming > (ie renaming the CMake interface but little else) in KF5, then that > might be the way to go. So far I was hoping we could have both for KF5 already, backward-compatible CMake config files with old imported targets as well as parallel new KF5- namespaced CMake names. Myself still no good idea how to do this in CMake without too much manual complicated fragile hackery. Cheers Friedrich
