extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
>> SVN commit 920313 by lfranchi:
>>
>> switch to linking to libplasma from kdelibs 4.2 instead of our own. awesome!
>> this depends on kde 4.2, but i have checked with the distros and it will not be a problem at all for 2.1 to depend on 2.2, even in a best-case-scenario where we release in 2 months.
>
> As I had already explained on IRC, I request to reconsider this
> commit. I do not think it wise to start depending on KDE 4.2 right
> now, for a number of reasons:
>
> 1)
> KDE 4.2 was officially released on January 27 2009. In other words: a
> few days ago. This is very little time.
>
> We _are_ going to lose a number of contributors and testers because of
> this. It's obvious that not all of our SVN users are necessarily using
> KDE 4.2 yet.
>
> 2)
> Our release schedule for Amarok 2.1 is not yet existent. Depending on
> the release date, it might be too soon to require KDE 4.2. This is not
> yet clear.
>
> 3)
> The only reason for the dependency on KDE 4.2 is currently LibPlasma.
> We do have the option of importing the latest LibPlasma into Amarok,
> as we used to do. Later on, we could still decide whether we want to
> keep this or not; changing this would be trivial.
>
> 4)
> The dependency is (for the moment) leading to problems with one of our
> commercial partners.
>
>
> PS: I've been informed that the dependency issue has been discussed on
> the amarok-devel list earlier. I should have intervened there, but
> missed the chance (travelling, etc). Sorry about that.
>

I don't mind the 4.2 dependency. In fact I requested it a few times on
IRC. It makes sense to have a .x release on a .x release of KDE.
The commercial considerations shouldn't block this move. I expect it's
possible to work around that.

Bart