Re:?==?utf-8?q? KMouth/frameworks and QtSpeech

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

Hi,
We're shipping QtSpeech in OpenMandriva, and I'm pretty sure I've seen a package in OpenSUSE as well.
>From our perspective, having a dependency on QtSpeech is very much preferable over having a dependency on kdelibs4 (which we'd like to retire as soon as possible).

ttyl
bero
 
On Thursday, July 13, 2017 23:10 CEST, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote: 
 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was discussing with Jeremy Whiting (in CC), maintainer of most accessibility
> things, about the blockers for merging the frameworks branch of KMouth into
> master.
> 
> This is something that should happen at some point: if not for Applications
> 17.08, where we are already past the freeze, excluding exceptions, it should
> happen for 17.12, where no kdelibs4 applications are going to be shipped in
> the bundle.
> 
> The main question (and the reason why I'm writing here) is: KMouth has an hard
> dependency on QtSpeech, which is still marked as Tech Preview as Qt 5.9, so
> changes to the API are possible. Would it be acceptable to ship its Frameworks
> version as soon as possible, even this dependency on an (potentially, even if
> I suspect not so much) unstable library from the distribution point of view?
> 
> Ciao
> -- 
> Luigi