App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Monday 06 May 2002 22:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> I support that. I am not opposed to the idea of releasing KDE 3.1 as just
> kdelibs and kdebase and all the other packages could be released
> independently (ether as one big packages or on an app by app basis) and
> possibly on different schedules.

Gnome is more or less following this principle (e.g. a Gnome "release" is 
actually a snapshot of all apps at a given point). It's a freakin' mess. The 
big problem is that there's no incentive for maintainers to stabilise their 
apps at some common point. Plus there's the fact that packaging requirements 
go through the roof (each app has to be packaged seperately).

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