App duplication again (Re: new project in kdemultimedia)

[Klas Kalass]

Am Montag, 6. Mai 2002 23:39 schrieb Rik Hemsley:
> #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.
Are you talking about a program you have in one of the cvs modules (except 
kdenonbeta) or about something outside of those modules? If you are talking 
about the former than I would like to know why you feel like you cannot use 
new stuff. If you are talking about the latter than this is the point I 
think: splitting the whole of KDE apart to leave only a kde-core results in 
all applications having to worry about compatibility to "old" library 
versions. But if they are part of the actual release they do not need to 
worry and may use new features as they wish. 


Cheers,
Klas