Circular dependency between @nextcloud/vue and @nextcloud/vue-richtext

[raimund-schluessler]

With #3708 we got into the unfortunate situation of a circular dependency between @nextcloud/vue and @nextcloud/vue-richtext. @nextcloud/vue now requires @nextcloud/vue-richtext which requires @nextcloud/vue which requires @nextcloud/vue-richtext which ..., you see what I mean 🙈

As long as the two packages release only compatible minor/patch versions, this is not a critical problem. But it is already cumbersome, because where do you stop updating if one package releases an update?

However, this situation becomes a critically blocking dead-lock, if we aim for a breaking major release. This will be the case with the migration to vue3 in #3692. In order to release a vue3 compatible version of @nextcloud/vue, we need a vue3 compatible version of @nextcloud/vue-richtext, which needs a vue3 compatible version of @nextcloud/vue, which... oh well. This won't work.

So, I really think we need to resolve this circular dependency. My proposed solution is to merge @nextcloud/vue-richtext into @nextcloud/vue. Since they anyway pull in each other, there is not much won by maintaining two separate packages/repositories. So I think that's a good solution. Plus, it's less effort to maintain a single package over two packages. We went the same way with @nextcloud/vue-dashboard and it worked fine.

What do you think about that @nextcloud/vuejs and especially @julien-nc, @mejo- @juliushaertl @skjnldsv?

[mejo-]

Thanks for noticing @raimund-schluessler, good catch!

My proposed solution is to merge @nextcloud/vue-richtext into @nextcloud/vue. Since they anyway pull in each other, there is not much won by maintaining two separate packages/repositories.

👍 from me for that proposal.

[st3iny]

Sounds good to me. Maintaining one less library is always a great thing.

However, I'm not familiar with the vue-richtext library so I don't know if there might be a good reason for the split.

[juliushaertl]

I've actually also been thinking about moving vue-richtext to @nextcloud/vuewith @julien-nc. In the beginning the package was generic so that it didn't have any nextcloud related code, that is why I started it as a separate one, but I think it might be the best to move the code over these days.

[raimund-schluessler]

Nice. I will have a look how to merge them.

[susnux]

From the user perspective (when developing NC apps) it also was not obvious why this are two different libraries.
So I think this also makes sense from that point.