[Digikam-devel] digikam 3 bta and libkipi from KDE 4.9

Andreas K. Huettel dilfridge at gentoo.org
Tue Sep 4 23:04:49 BST 2012


Am Dienstag 04 September 2012, 10:28:58 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> 2012/9/4 Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister at gmx.net>:
> > Am Dienstag, 4. September 2012, 06:26:55 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> >> digiKam 3.0 will require next libkipi 2.0 witch will come with KDE
> >> 4.10.
> > 
> > 4.10 is going to be released at the end of January 2013. So until then
> > there is no stable release of libkipi that will work with digikam 3.0.
> > 
> >> digiKam tarball will be published with libkipi as well. Look
> >> GoSC 2012 wiki page for details :
> >> 
> >> http://community.kde.org/Digikam/GSoC2012#Repositories_Branching_and_Dat
> >> es
> > 
> > This states that digikam 3.0 will be released before KDE SC 4.10 releases
> > the required libkipi.
> > 
> > So distros will have to include an unreleased (from KDE SC's point of
> > view) version of libkipi if they want to provide digikam 3.0. Leaving
> > alone providing packages for beta testing.
> 
> No. digiKam will include it as well. It will install only binary file,
> no headers... We have talk with KDE core developpers about...
> 

You probably remember from Digikam 2.0 that this a situation which won't make 
distributions happy... however, let's worry about this when the 3.0 release 
comes closer. "Best case", 3.0 gets delayed anyway and coincides with KDE 
4.10. :o)

-- 

Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge at gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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