Re: Packaging (dataproviders) modules

["John Stowers" <john stowers gmail com>]

> So we could basically ship each dataprovider in its own package. But
> this would on the one hand result in a lot of packages and on the other
> side most dataproviders are self hosting, so don't depend on any further
> software.
>
> Another way could be to ship most modules with the conduit package and
> only separate the packages with external dependencies. As far as I know
> this would affect the following dataproviders:
>
>  - NetworkModule -> twisted
>  - SynceModule -> AFAIK synce with dbus is not available for
> Debian/Ubuntu yet
>  - EvolutionModule
>
> Finally we could combine the basic dataproviders in a
> conduit-core-modules package (Files, Settings ...) and separate the
> other ones e.g. conduit-module-evolution or conduit-module-network.

that sounds like what I had in mind. We dont yet ship Synce module as
it is not yet finished so dont worry about that.

I think a good compromise is to ship everything that has its deps in
the conduit tree and then included evolution and network module as
their own debs, much as you suggested.

John