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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 15:30 +0200, Bor Kraljič wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 of May 2011 13:30:44 Treeve Jelbert wrote:
> > As you may know, KDE has just released the first beta of kde-4.7.
> > There are many more tarballs for this release than for previous versions 
> > of 
> > kde, as they correspond to the new split git repos.
> > 
> > In particular, kdegraphics and and kdeedu have multiple modules. Also 
> > kate and 
> > konsole now have a separate existence.
> > 
> > I have some local spells for much of this, which build directly from 
> > local git 
> > repos. I have been building these on a regular basis for some time. I 
> > never 
> > pushed these spells, as they were intended for a rather special usage 
> > case, 
> > however, they do have the relevent conflicts and dependencies. I could 
> > now push 
> > this stuff to a new devel-kde-4.7 branch as a starting point if someone 
> > else 
> > would like to add the SOURCE, SOURCE_URL, SOURCEHASH entries which are 
> > currently absent.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> >            SPELL=marble
> >           SPELLX=kde-edu/$SPELL
> >          VERSION=master
> > SOURCE_DIRECTORY="$BUILD_DIRECTORY/$SPELL-$VERSION"
> >         WEB_SITE=http://www.kde.org
> >          ENTERED=20110218
> > #  SECURITY_PATCH=1
> >       LICENSE[0]=GPL
> >         KEYWORDS="kde4"
> >            SHORT="a virtual globe for kde4"
> > cat << EOF
> > a virtual globe fro kde
> > EOF
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > $ ls kde4-graphics/
> > FUNCTIONS  kcolorchooser  kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer  ksaneplugin  
> > libkexiv2  
> > libkmap   skanlite
> > gwenview   KDE_CONFIGURE  kgamma                       ksnapshot    
> > libkface   
> > libksane  svgpart
> > kamera     KDE_DEPENDS    kolourpaint                  libkdcraw    
> > libkipi    
> > okular
> > 
> > $ ls kde4-edu/
> > cantor     kalgebra  KDE_CONFIGURE  kmplot  libkdeedu  rocs
> > FUNCTIONS  kalzium   KDE_DEPENDS    kstars  marble     step
> > 
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> Branches are cheap! And this will absolutly help the person who will make 
> spells for stable releases. (That guy will probably be me :) )
> 
> I say push the branch. Sharing the code can't hurt!
> 
> regards, Bor

Agreed. Also provides a backup in case your harddrive crashes. ;)

-sandalle

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