[Digikam-devel] Talking about the future task (later 0.9.0-final)

[Colin Guthrie]

Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i have started my first investiguations about the 2 next major jobs
> to do later 0.9.0 final release :
> 
> - Qt4.0/KDE 4.0 port - CMake port.
> 
> The first one is not very complicated. We just need to use the new
> API. To have a look into Qt 4.0 and digikam source code, i think it's
> a long but trivial task.
> 
> The question in suspend is : when we will port digikam to Qt 4.0, 
> DigikamImagePlugins, kipi-plugins, and libkipi need to be port at the
> same time ?

Something which I read on the Amarok Dev list appears relevent here:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/amarok/2006-September/001484.html

<quote>
KDE 4

The optimistic estimates seem to agree that KDE 4 will be released in
about 1
year. Even more time will pass until it hits most people's desktops. What
does this mean for us? If we start our KDE 4 port now, then we won't be
able
to release a new version for one year. A long time in Amarok's terms.
Instead
of going KDE 4 right now, we could do a lot of refactoring (port to another
database backend, database scheme reorganization, separating internal data
represenatation from display in order to prepare for MVC, making subsystems
more independent, providing for better scriptability and more powerful
plug-ins...) already in a KDE 3-based version and starting to port when a
better timeline for a KDE 4 release is available.
</quote>


Hope that is some food for thought.

Col.