status of reduced link interface ?

[Dirk Mueller]

On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> you committed a lot of link fixes in the last days.
> Since I don't have the compile-power to check it myself, does everything in
> KDE/ now link correctly again ?

everything but kdepim it seems, thats a bigger pain to get right. you can 
watch the status at http://developer.kde.org/~dirk/dashboard

> If so, what do you think about removing the option and making the reduced
> linking the default in trunk next monday ?

Thats what I wanted to propose as well, you just wrote the email faster. :)

> And, what do you think about 4.1 branch ? It would be nice if we would have
> it there too, as soon as possible.

It is possible to backport the changes, but there might be new link failures 
in unusual configurations.. tricky to get right in that short amount of time. 

> Oh, I just noticed 4.1.0 has been tagged yesterday. So if we do this for
> 4.1.1, we'll kind of break compatibility between 4.1.0 and 4.1.1. 

we "only" break source compatibility, not binary compatibility. so its 
possible to do that for 4.1.1. 

Which part do you want to have backported? the link line fixes or the actual 
dependency reduction patch (with the LINK_INTERFACE_LIBS)?

> P.S. did I miss a reminder email "4.1.0 will be tagged tomorrow" or
> something like this ? This would have been nice. Or is the average
> developer now expected to subscribe to kde-releaseteam ?

No, but knowing about freezes. There was no announcement on kde-cvs-announce 
this time because we often got complains about the mail "flood". Well, seems 
like it is necessary after all. 

Greetings,
Dirk