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Month: July 2012

Re: [trinity-devel] Post R14.0.0 project goals

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 19:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
> We've discussed before about removing some nominal cruft
> from the source tree. kuickshow is another package because
> those exact same sources are included in tdegraphics.
> Someone could argue that some people want kuickshow but not
> the entire tdegraphics package, but then anybody could make
> the same argument for all of the Trinity packages.
> 
> 
> Which is an approach I prefer :-)  
> 
> 
> I would like to see, post R14, that we split packages into
> individual elements as much as possible. Initially that
> means more work for packagers, and with reorganizing the
> source tree, but in the long run would be easier to
> maintain, as well as easier for users to customize exactly
> what they want to install. Debugging would be easier too
> because we don't have to build large mega-packages to
> test patches against a single app.
> 
> I concur! This also will make it better for people using
> trinity applications who are not using Trinity as a full
> time desktop.

I created an etherpad for potential post R14 project goals:

http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/51

Darrell