next snapshot (Re: kdesupport/qt-dbus)

[Matt Rogers]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 15:43, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 18 June 2006 16:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > SVN commit 552611 by thiago:
> >
> > Introduce the new QtDBus type marshaller/demarshaller system, dubbed
> > "Pattern Buffer". This change is binary-incompatible, but
> > source-compatible. If you can't afford to rebuild everything, please
> > wait until the next kdelibs snapshot (which should happen tomorrow).
>
> OK. Actually I said last week "we should wait until all main modules are
> ported to dbus before making more snapshot updates", but if there are
> changes that actually help with the porting, then that's a reason to update
> the snapshot indeed. Well, technically those are changes in qtdbus, not in
> kdelibs, but while we have to recompile kdelibs, we might as well update it
> if it doesn't bring in more API changes to port to.
>

I will argue that the only thing that needs to be updated is the relevant 
revisions that are related to the dbus changes. Updating the snapshot more 
often only creates problems for those who expect to have a decently stable 
base to port against, since that's what the snapshot is for. 

The recreation of the snapshot last monday completely violated that 
expectation. We might have well have been using trunk in that case.


> I had a look at what would change if updating kdelibs snapshot, and only
> this came up: - many bugfixes (including knotify and kded working better,
> KPageWidget stuff, the kdatetime static-object crash fixed etc.) - the
> removal of the name argument in the KDEDModule class
> - the new KButtonGroup class
> - ah and maybe the removal of q3 includes might mean some more q3 includes
> to add in modules. No big change, so it shouldn't harm the current porting
> effort.
>

these are the only things that come up because you updated the snapshot last 
week. Otherwise, the list would be longer.

> => I suggest that we update the snapshot tomorrow indeed.
> But after that I suggest that we stick to "we'll only update the snapshot
> when all main modules have been ported to dbus", otherwise we'll never have
> compiling modules.

tomorrow is the normal day to update the snapshot on the every two week update 
schedule. When you updated it last week, you were a week ahead of schedule, 
and IMO, it should have never been updated then (or at the very least, 
announced on kde-cvs-announce first)

I say stick with the current schedule, and backport important revisions on an 
as needed basis.
--
Matt (who was caused a lot of pain after the last snapshot update)