App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Guillaume Laurent]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 00:55, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> 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.

To further illustrate my point :

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers-readonly/2002-March/msg00258.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers-readonly/2002-March/msg00269.html

And don't believe it's just this release. You'll find similar threads for 
almost every one they've made.

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					Guillaume.
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