[Development] New Qt Modules

Dominik Holland dominik.holland at pelagicore.com
Wed Oct 14 14:29:25 CEST 2015



On 10/13/2015 12:01 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 08:53:21AM +0000, Hausmann Simon wrote:
>> I think code that isn't specific to the automotive industry such as as
>> the dbus integration should be integrated into existing modules unless
>> there is a good reason otherwise.
>>
> i said the same. ^^
> it turns out that there are, ehm, "external constraints" regarding
> binary packaging which suggest separation at the repo level.
> 
> but it occurred to me that this isn't unique to these modules: see the
> current lgpl 2.1 vs. 3 situation within the qtlocation module. we're
> going to handle that by splitting the repo at build time. while this
> isn't strictly beautiful, it seems like a rather reasonable approach to
> this specific problem. i suggest the proposal to be reconsidered with
> this possibility in mind.
> 
> Viironen Kalle wrote:
>>   *   qt/qtivi, Qt IVI extensible platform abstraction layer
>>   *   qt/qtgeniviextras, Qt extras for GENIVI services
>>
> i'm still not clear why these should be separate repositories.
> intuitively, genivi extras seems to be a subset of ivi. this doesn't
> imply that they are the same module (library), but grouping modules by
> topic at the repository level is often a reasonable thing.

Yes genivi is a subset of IVI.

As the qtgeniviextras repository currently only contains the
QtGeniviExtras modules we could move the module into the qtivi
repository, that's ok for me.

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