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<div class="im">On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 23:44:21 Andrea Diamantini wrote:<br>> 4.x is where I'm living/fighting/coding/writing now.<br><br></div>for apps and workspaces, that is perfect. we don't want to disrupt app and<br>
workspace development while we get kdelibs prepped for the next major release.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> I'm sorry to say, in my mind next version of kdelibs is 4.8.<br><br></div>your mind is wrong. whatever the version number might end up saying (probably<br>to keep packagers and users from confusion) it'll be the 4.7 code base with<br>
continued bug fixes applied :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>> And it will be based on the upcoming (not yet released) Qt 4.8.<br><br></div>sure; but this is a non-relevant detail.<br>
<div class="im"><br>> Thinking about "frameworks" without having yet a decent idea of what will be<br>> Qt5 is impossible for me.<br><br></div>actually, Qt5 is irrelevant to most of the work that needs to be done in<br>
frameworks. we can, and are, working against Qt4 right now. most of the work<br>is modularization and modernization (while preserving source compatibility)<br></blockquote>
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<div>Ok, stupid question then. Why aren't we releasing this as kdelibs 4.8?</div>
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<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>we are merging some things upstream into Qt5, and the things that are merged<br>upstream are going into a small temporary library call libinqt (lib in qt ;).<br>
when Qt5 arrives, that library will go away and we will be able to move to<br>basing frameworks on Qt5. between now and then there is a lot of work on the<br>modularization and modernization work.<br><br>for instance, Sune's proposal to improve KNotification requires absolutely<br>
nothing from Qt5. having that done before Qt5 arrives would actually be a<br>bonus as we wouldn't have to juggle too many different kinds of changes at<br>once.<br><br>i do recognize that there is not enough documented plans and direction for<br>
frameworks 5. there are a handful of wiki pages but they do not contain enough<br>information; too much of that still resides in the heads of just a few people.<br><br>to help address that, i'm hosting an irc meeting in a couple weeks with people<br>
currently working on frameworks 5 with the aim of pulling together clearly<br>documented goals, tasks and milestones. the date has not been fixed yet, once<br>it is i will announce it here as well so interested parties can join.<br>
<br>i hope that with further documentation and clairty of goals that others will<br>be able to see how they can get involved with frameworks and why now is a good<br>time to do so.<br>
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<div>I hope that, too :)</div>
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<div class="h5">--<br>Aaron J. Seigo<br>humru othro a kohnu se<br>GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43<br><br>KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks<br></div></div></blockquote>
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