> On July 11, 2014, 7:58 p.m., Christian David wrote:
> > Is this only used until the pim libs are KF5 ready? Because I think this 
> > function is so important that it justifies having the pim libs a obligatory 
> > dependency. There will be many bug reports if a package maintainer forgets 
> > to compile with kdepimlibs.
> 
> Cristian Oneț wrote:
>     No, I would like to see this as a permanent change. I'm not that sure 
> about which of the features are so important that they must be a mandatory 
> dependency. I like the idea of having the freedom to build without kdepimlibs 
> if necessary and if that can be obtained easily why not have it? I'm not 
> sugesting that packagers should do this but for example in source based 
> distributions users would be able to have a choice, which is nice.
> 
> Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>     I'm against this being a permanent change. It affects how schedules are 
> handled, which impacts all over the application.
>     And I certainly don't want to track down a bug reported by an unsupecting 
> user just to figure out later a packager left the dependency out because kde 
> pim libs was "too big".
> 
> Cristian Oneț wrote:
>     I hate to disagree but I don't see it that way. The only effect to the 
> way schedules are handled is that processing dates are not obtained from the 
> holliday region thus the "old" (and documented) behavior of considering only 
> weekends as non-processing days will be in effect.
>     
>     If you ask me is this feature really that crucial that we should make 
> everyone build kdepimlibs in oder to use kmymoney I would say no. Again, I'm 
> not removing the feature, just making it optional.
>     
>     The feature isn't even documented so I'm not sure if we would start 
> receiving bug reports about it. But just to be on the safe side we could 
> finish the feature in main.cpp:69 which would provide a list of optional 
> features that were built (or found as plugins) in the about data.
>     
>     If it's something I've learned from and appreacited in the KF5 model is 
> that the take everything or leave it approach is wrong. Think about it, 
> kdepimlibs has 22 libraries plus their dependecies , of which we only use 4 
> (QGpgme, KHolidays, PIMIdentities, Akonadi) for pretty slim features. Knowing 
> this wouldn't it be wiser to allow those who don't need those features to be 
> able to use the application without these dependencies?
> 
> Marko Käning wrote:
>     Cristian, I am very much in favour for what you're stating here. This is 
> something which one wouldn't be too worried about on Linux, but on OSX as on 
> Windows in your case it is a real show-stopper to be forced into having far 
> too many dependencies for seemingly little functionality gain.
>     
>     Thus, I also vote for making things optional!
> 
> Christian David wrote:
>     I think, on the long term kdepimlibs will be split up anyway. So the size 
> problem might be solved just by waiting.
>     
>     Please see my comments as not mainly targeting this review request but 
> more as a general concern about making kdepimlibs optional.
>     
>     From my point of view this patch adds more complexity to KMyMoney without 
> a real benefit.
>     
>     All future development needs to wrap the usage of kdepimlibs, which means 
> a lot of work. Also it is hard for a new developer to understand/change it as 
> he has to learn kdepimlibs and the KMyMoney wrapper. Also using #if 
> HAVE_KDEPIMLIBS is uncomfortable from my point of view but maybe I am just 
> too sensitive to that (I worked in project which overdid this — bad memories).
>     
>     If this has a real benefit for Windows or Mac users it could be a fair 
> deal until kdepimlibs got actually split up. Especially as long as it is a 
> small patch like this one.
> 
> Cristian Oneț wrote:
>     I agree that preprocessor definition based conditonal compiling is a 
> PITA. KMyMoney already has KMM_DESIGNER which gave us a lot of headaches but 
> in this case I think that there is a real benefit as long as the conditional 
> code can be kept fairly simple and future development is not hindered.

This weekend I checked out the state of kde framemeworks 5 on Windows. Once I 
passed the hurdles and managed to install all the necessary frameworks (by 
fixing some issues) I would have found it much easier to start working on 
KMyMoney, if this patch would have been in master and frameworrks. Knowing the 
state of framworks kdepimlibs on Linux I didn't even tried to build it on 
Windows, just went ahead and ifdef-ed the kdepimlibs dependencies so I could 
get to the more important issue of KMyMoney on frameworks on Windows.

I guess the situation is similar on OS X. The sooner we would be able to setup 
a CI build of KMyMoney on all three systems (Linux, Windows, OS X) the better 
because KMyMoney could act as a real proof that frameworks are really cross 
platform like Qt.


- Cristian


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> (Updated July 11, 2014, 7:58 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KMymoney.
> 
> 
> Repository: kmymoney
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> If KDE PIM libraries will not be found during configuration all days will be 
> considered processing days. Note that this review request dependes on the 
> cmake changes in https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119207/
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/settings/ksettingsschedules.cpp 96bfb84 
>   kmymoney/kmymoney.cpp 687187a 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119234/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Build and run the application with and without HAVE_KDEPIMLIBS defined.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cristian Oneț
> 
>

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