App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[aleXXX]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 11:46, Stephan Kulow wrote:
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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.
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> > 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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> 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

Yes, I'm all for it. kdeapps or kdemisc or something. E.g. kpovmodeller (it's 
in kdegraphics, isn't it ?) is something what probably not many users use but 
what they have to download now. Maybe some other, less common things too.

Bye
Alex