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[Simon Hausmann]

On Saturday 15. July 2006 12:17, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:47:06PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > We have to draw a line somewhere and I believe with the current set of
> > features a stable and timely Qt 4.2 release is more important for KDE.
>
> i can't say i can follow you. i can buy into any other reason for
> feature-freezing qt4.2 now, but the benefit for kde4, which is currently
> in the probably most fluent state possible, is more than questionable to
> me.
> when qt4.3 brings these shiny new features we will a) deprecate "half"
> of our api in kde4.1 and b) be entirely stuck with our implementations
> until kde5 in cases where the qt new implementations are no suitable
> base for our apis fixed in kde4.0 (think inheritance, but also behavior
> compatibility). in any case we'll again have concurrent implementations
> in qt and kde.
> oh, well ...

Yes, and with Qt 4.4 we'll have exactly the same situation again. Hence the 
line to draw :)

Simon
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