App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Stephan Kulow]

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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.
> 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).
I don't like the idea either. We should open another module, where we add 
activly maintained applications, that can be released seperatly, but that do 
not are active part of the KDE release. But we should definitly keep e.g.
korganizer and kmail in freeze together with kdebase.

Greetings, Stephan

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