Proposal for KDE 4.0

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 15:17, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> El Miércoles 18 Agosto 2004 14:54, Pierre Habouzit escribió:
> > > > why is that a sickness ??
> > >
> > > Cannot have two versions in parallel.
> >
> > I don't see why, really.
> >
> > when kde version x.y is out, any x'.y' version with x<x' or y<y' is not
> > maintained anymore. So there is no reason you would like to run two KDE
> > version on the same box (I mean, productively).
>
> If you have a program that relies on KDE that has not been ported yet, you
> want to have the old KDE around. At least kdelibs...

Exactly. It's not that commercial KDE applications are exactly flocking to the 
KDE platform, but if you have no way to continue running such applications 
after a major KDE upgrade then I'm pretty sure we will never get any either.

Cheers,
Waldo
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