App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Rik Hemsley]

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#if David Faure
> On Monday 06 May 2002 22:47, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > This already happens with KOffice and I would like to see that
> > extended to other packages.
>
> 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.

How is this different with the current situation ? Currently I can't use
'new' stuff in kdelibs until KDE 4.0 is released. Ok, I can say I 
require KDE 3.1.2, but users wouldn't like that.

> * it takes much more effort for the actual releases (packaging,
> announcement, changelogs, etc.), so this will require many more
> "release dudes". For apps which have active maintainers, no problem,
> but who's going to release the next version of, say, kpaint, or
> kfloppy, or khexedit? Ok, if the app _really_ doesn't change then
> there's no point, but if it gets some occasional bugfixes only, those
> will never get out to the users.

Good point.

> Well, then we have to automate this process, like I think SourceForge
> does... Not as easy as just saying it though, none of the list I
> cited above is currently in a state that can easily be automated.

Yes, that is something which would need some work, but I think it's 
worth the effort. Once it's possibly to run a script to release a KDE 
app, together with translations, documentation, etc. then I think we 
will see more 'point releases' of apps, which IMO is a good thing.

Rik

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