[Kde-extra-gear] KDE 3.2?

Klas Kalaß klas.kalass at gmx.de
Sun May 16 23:43:52 CEST 2004


Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 20:22 schrieb George Staikos:
> On May 14, 2004 05:51, Klas Kalaß wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 14. Mai 2004 11:07 schrieb Jeroen Wijnhout:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Maybe I'm completely wrong, but didn't we decide to switch to
> > > MIN_CONFIG(3.2) a while ago? I would like to require KDE 3.2 for Kile
> > > soon, however KEG-2 still has MIN_CONFIG(3.2).
> >
> > The following policy was accepted by the majority some time ago:
> > > 1) Use the highest requirement off all applications for the entire
> > > module and let every application maintainer drop the requirements for a
> > > release or in their working directory. This solution is the least pain
> > > for those users likely to use CVS: People who use the latest stable
> > > KDE. This implies that no application is allowed to require CVS which
> > > used to be the implicit rule up to now anyways.
> >
> > Feel free to raise the requirement to KDE 3.2.
>
>   This is a problem for Kst.  Almost all of our users use KDE 3.1, at least
> half of our developers use KDE 3.1, and I don't foresee that changing any
> time soon.  Why can't we make a system whereby the individual applications
> choose their minimum requirement and are removed from compilation if those
> requirements are not met?
Sounds good. Will you implement it? 

Last time the consensus was, that applications with lower requirements will 
use the appropriate MIN_CONFIG in their distribution tarball. 
Your developers are also free to use that setting locally.

Regards,
  Klas
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