[Kde-pim] KDE 3.3 Release Plan is up

[Simon Hausmann]

On Saturday 08 May 2004 23:10, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:04, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > Le Samedi 8 Mai 2004 20:24, Harri Porten a écrit :
> > > I'm not a KDE PIM developer so I can just make a general comment:
> > > do you know how many people in the world (including my wife) are
> > > still running Windows 95 with a big set of recent application
> > > software available? That's platform stability for almost 9 years!
> > > I'd assume that KDE would be able to provide the same for 1-2
> > > years. If there's an unfixable interface you can always provide a
> > > new one.
> >
> > It's much easier to upgrade kdelibs from 4.0 to 4.1 than update the
> > OS of a window machine.
> >
> > I wonder how much DLL your wife has to install. (I guess she updated
> > MS Internet Explorer with his set of Windows core library :-) )
> >
> > Compare things that are comparable.  If one user want to update
> > kdepim, i'm sure he is capable to upgrade kdelibs in the same time.
>
> One user? Yes, he will most likely anyway buy a completely new
> distribution.

Possibly. But not every two or three years but much more frequently.
Unless they haven't figured out how to get and install new KDE releases for 
their distro off ftp.kde.org anyway, which, given the load, appears to remain 
increasingly popular.

Simon