What's keeping us from being releasable?

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Tue May 6 21:04:45 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 06 May 2008 10:09:41 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 05.05.08 10:09:11, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > After seeing the Goals list of the release-team mailing list, I'm
> > wondering just what exactly is keeping us from releasing with KDE 4.1.
> >
> > Please fill me in. I think if we used the time appropriately, we could
> > actually make a run at releasing KDevelop 4.0 (etc.) with KDE 4.1
>
> - no use-building for projects, which means code-navigation only works
>   on open files
> - quickopen is very slow here even in release builds
> - qmake support can't parse anything but very simple projects
> - workspace-concept isn't finished
> - debugger isn't there - AFAIK
> - designer-plugin is barely working (though we could just disable/remove
>   that for the 4.0 release)
> - shortcuts-overriding/scheme still not done
> - area concept not yet done
>
> to name a few I know of. IIRC message freeze is in 2 weeks, which is
> really close and I don't see us making that deadline, unless we simply
> release what we have right now.
>
> Andreas

Thanks for the list. I've been using KDevelop 4 pretty heavily the last week 
or so and (before it started crashing) wasn't missing the things that weren't 
implemented or that I wasn't using, which is why I asked about being 
releasable. 

Thanks
--
Matt





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