On Sunday 22 February 2009 19:32:47 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > It would then get packaged with kdemultimedia. > > It would not. It comes from extragear-multimedia, which is not the same as > kdemultimedia! > > There wouldn't be a separate package. Besides, KMplayer is now part of > > kdeextras. > > A lot of stuff is part of extragear, that doesn't mean we're supposed to > package the version from extragear trunk. Extragear apps release on their > own cycle (they may request to be released together with KDE releases, but > they don't have to and many don't). In particular, extragear-multimedia > contains stuff like Amarok 2 which has its own releases and K3b whose KDE 4 > port isn't ready to be packaged at all yet. And extragear apps are shipped > separately, not as whole modules. > > Shipping a snapshot of extragear-multimedia as a monolithic package is a > horribly bad idea. > > > The current version in the snapshots are stable version. > > They're not. It's a snapshot from the current trunk. The Amarok and K3b > versions in that snapshot are very experimental. KMplayer may or may not be > stable in it, but the only way to be sure is to use an official release > blessed by KMplayer upstream, not a snapshot of a huge extragear directory > which happens to contain KMplayer. Again, extragear does not work like core > KDE modules (and even for those we wouldn't ship trunk snapshots, only > releases!). > > > I've extracted and noticed that there is no Beta or RC candiate attached > > to the version number. > > That doesn't mean it's not a beta or RC. Version numbers don't get updated > all the time, most of us developers only care about them being correct in > releases, in snapshots they can be anything (the previous release, the next > release, whatever). > > > So, to keep up to date with whats happening with kdeextras I think it > > would be a good idea to use kdeextras. > > No. You don't understand how extragear (which is how it's called, > not "kdeextras") works. The whole point of extragear is to have separate > apps with independent release cycles. > They are independant however, a quck examination of several packages. kmldonkey as an examply is only released via extragear. If I mistyped and said kdeextras instead of kde extragear sorry. As far as stable extragear stuff is concerned take a look at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.2.0/src/extragear While they are all listed as seperate packages they are all under extragear. My experience with KMPlayer has been that the developer has always placed the correct version in the about box. And as I said, it maybe a good idea to email the guy and ask him which would be better. In any case, I will leave the packaging up to Rex's discretion. He usually makes the right choice. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090222/ed6fa934/attachment.html
