App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Tim Jansen]

On Monday 06 May 2002 23:09, David Faure wrote:
> To mention the drawbacks of that approach, since I've been experiencing
> them with the KOffice releases:
> * the app must keep compiling with the latest stable kdelibs, which not
> many people test since we developers tend to get and update everything from
> CVS. It also means some #ifdef code, some stuff that can't be done at all
> until the next kdelibs comes out, etc.

It also means that new features in kdelibs, that are not used by konqueror, 
konsole or one of the other few apps in kdebase, will basically sit there for 
an undefined time in kdelibs, waiting to be used. If they have any bugs of 
the hard-to-find category (for example problems on rare system configurations 
or less popular OSes) these won't be discovered before kdelibs was already 
released, because there is no widespread testing like in the beta releases 
now - unless the applications release their betas at the same time.

bye...