Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[George Staikos]

On April 20, 2002 19:43, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I asked Ralf "What is the core distrubtion" but didn't get any response
> > to that, so I would like to consider "kdelibs+kdebase" the core
> > distribution. That should constitute the "Naked desktop" (kdenude.rpm
> > >:-), everyhting else should then go into individual binary packages. The
> > distributors can then decide for themselves what they want to put in
> > their "default" installation.
>
> That's what I suggested for kdenonbeta: give developers an easy-to-use
> possibility to release their work separately from KDE release schedule, and
> still have the code inside a central repository so that it is useful for
> developers. Right now it's quite difficult to have an application in CVS
> and still package the source separately.

 This is particularily a problem for i18n issues.  People want to submit 
messages separately for apps in kdenonbeta.  Then we have to package up the 
messages to ship with the app when it's release separately.