extragear/multimedia/amarok

[Mark Kretschmann]

2009/2/2 Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org>:
> On 2 Feb 2009, at 18:51, Mark Kretschmann 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Best case scenario that we both agreed on was we can release 2.1 in 2
> months. I personally talked to ubuntu/suse/debian/mandriva packagers, and
> have seen the gentoo packager say, that this does not cause any problems at
> all if 2.1 is released in 2 months depending on 4.2.
>
>
> 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.
>
> yes, the reason to do this is to remove the temporary hack that is copying
> libplasma in our source tree. by doing this we lose out on bugfixes, need to
> make sure that things don't get out of sync, and add more work for ourselves
> in the future.
>
> 4)
> The dependency is (for the moment) leading to problems with one of our
> commercial partners.
>
> could you explain?


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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
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