Future of KDE Development

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:08, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> which works on most platforms. my understanding is that for KDE 4, BC
> with KDE 3 needs not be maintained. so, i am offering to fix the
> things which don't happen to work on Solaris. but, there's also Linux
> and FreeBSD. so, i was asking if, in case we run into a situation
> where something works on Linux but not Solaris, or FreeBSD, or
> vice-versa, could we work together to try to find a common solution,
> rather than relying on separate source code patches. when necessary,
> by abstracting the OS-dependent interfaces, for example. i do realize

i think this has always been the desire and goal, we've just lacked people to 
act as intermediaries between some of these pools of downstream patches and 
the official KDE sources. if you're willing to do this for Solaris, then that 
would be awesome. all it takes is for someone on Solaris to post a patch 
saying "this makes it work, i'm not sure it breaks on other OSes" to get 
feedback, fixes.

so this doesn't take changes to the current process, it just requires changes 
(or rather, additions) to our current development team.

now i'm all curious about how big the patch set is for Solaris, and what BIC 
changes there are. i'll be watching for the patches when they start rolling 
in =)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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