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  • From: Eric Schabell <eric AT schabell.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] KDE CVS spells - request for comments
  • Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:51:16 +0100

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:28:28PM +0000, Gareth Clay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm in the middle of a general spring-clean / overhaul of the kde section,
> and
> I want to ask for your opinions on the CVS kde spells we have in there
> (kde/CVS directory within the grimoire).
>
> Currently we have our normal kde spells which can be configured when
> casting
> to install either the current stable version (3.3.2) or the current
> development version (updating the spells to 3.4 beta 2 is on my todo list
> for
> this weekend). We also have a whole set of duplicate spells for installing
> the main kde components from CVS.
>
> I'm not particularly happy with this setup - I don't like the duplication.
> The
> spells don't seem to have been maintained in quite a while (they're
> targeting
> the 3.2 branch, but stable is on 3.3 and no one has complained on
> bugzilla).
> On top of that, I'm not convinced of the need for these spells. We don't
> provide CVS spells for gnome, for example. I would have thought that the
> place for CVS spells is for those apps that people really want but for
> which
> there are no tarballs, usually because no official release has been made
> yet.
> We already provide for the development version of kde in the normal kde
> spells.
>
> So, my question is - do you want these spells? Does anyone even use them?
> Should they be removed? I won't remove anything that people definitely
> want,
> but if it turns out that you *do* want the ability to cast kde from CVS I
> might try to integrate the spells a little better so there is only one
> spell
> for each kde component which lets you cast either the stable, devel or CVS
> version.
>
I use them every once in awhile, especially with kdevelop, but would be
nicer to integrate into the standard spells and have a choice of the
stable or cvs releases (not sure why one would want devel and not the
latest greatest...).

erics

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