extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Bart Cerneels]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.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.
>>
>> If someone is using an SVN prerelease version of amarok, asking for a *major
>> release* of KDE seems to me to be a pretty small request.
>
> No, but showing a bit more restraint might have been prudent. Note that not even
> kubuntu has readily available packages for 4.2 on intrepid.
Instructions for getting the 4.2 packages from the
kubuntu-experimental repo's: http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2

I've been using them since the first beta. I actually think you'll be
more productive with 4.2 because it has less bugs and annoyances.

Bart