[Kde-bindings] Release at the end of the month

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 15 April 2004 12:02 am, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 19:22:10 +0200, Simon Edwards <simon at simonzone.com>
>
> wrote:
> > As a developer it would suck having to wait 6 months just to get access
> > to bug
> > fixes (to possibly development-stopping bugs) or new kdelibs
> > functionality.
> > Sure, you can say "cvs co kdebindings" blah blah blah but that is a
> > roadblock
> > for a lot of developers who might want to use the stuff in kdebindings
> > but
> > don't have the time or ability to mess with compiling big chunks of C++.
> > What
> > I'm trying to say is that "ease of use" is a very important part why
> > people
> > use Python, Ruby, javascript etc.
>
> agreed.
>
> noone in there right mind wants the full kdebindings distribution
> not packagers. not us. not end users. i personallly think we should
> change configure to disable everything by default and switch on what
> the user chooses.

Just to throw something in from left field...

All the discussion seems to be developer oriented. The user shouldn't have to 
care about how an application is implemented in order to know they have to 
install something extra. The runtime elements for all the bindings should be 
in kdelibs.

Phil