Re: [Evolution-hackers] Merging the collaboration providers in a single package

[chen <pchenthill novell com>]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 09:21 -0600, Sankar P wrote:
> >>> On 10/18/2010 at 07:01 PM, in message
> <1287408711 3126 11 camel localhost localdomain>, Matthew Barnes
> <mbarnes redhat com> wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:10 +0530, chen wrote:
> > > The other solution was to maintain all exchange providers in a single
> > > package, merging evolution-exchange, evolution-ews and evolution-mapi
> > > into a single package. Other collaboration providers like
> > > evolution-groupwise and evolution-kolab (yet to be upstreamed) will
> > > remain as separate packages.
> > 
> > If we -have- to glob providers together I would prefer the alternate
> > solution: merge all the Exchange providers into one git module, break
> > GroupWise out from E-D-S into it's own git module, and leave the rest
> > alone.
> > 
> > This is not unlike the recent gnome-games debate on desktop-devel-list,
> > except that we already have shared libraries for the common parts with
> > fairly stable APIs (libebook, libecal, etc.).
> > 
> > Jon's comments on the gnome-games issue reflect my own for this one:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2010-October/msg00049.html 
The control/ownership of the code can be made clear using provider-level
maintainer-ship (like groupwise, exchange, kolab2 maintainers etc.)
inside a single package. Of-course package is one, but with independent
sub-modules and owners.

Is there any other disadvantage or point of concern ?

> > 
> > 
> 
> I prefer not to have every provider in its own module.  If we make changes in the baseclass, it will be ignored and won't go into unmaintained providers. More providers translates to more work for packagers downstream and also during the release time for maintainers as well, with not much benefits.  
> 
> Just my 2 cents. 
I agree. I would not term as un-maintained providers. If they are really
un-maintained, which means many bugs exist and people are not able to
use it, it has to be pruned at some point. 

But certainly I see advantages to have the providers in a single package
which would help us adapt to the API changes well, translations could be
shared, packagers can look for updates for one package and maintainers
would have less burden in releasing many packages.


- Chenthill.
> 
> Sankar
> 
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