renaming kde-config to kde4-config

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 26 June 2006 21:25, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 19:03, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to rename kde-config for KDE 4 to kde4-config.
> > This will avoid ambiguities. When calling "kde4-config ..." one will
> > always get the information for KDE 4, not for KDE 3 because the KDE3
> > kde-config was earlier in the PATH.
> > We may run into even more issues if some distributions might decide to
> > name the kde-config of KDE4 kde4-config, in order to be able to install
> > it in the same dir as the KDE3 one.
> > This happens right now with qmake, in debian there is qmake, qmake-qt3
> > and qmake-qt4, and leads to a lot of trouble if you want to autodetect
> > some version of Qt.
> > I'd like to avoid these issues completely by just naming it explicitely
> > kde4-config.
>
> I think it is sad if users must be aware of implementation details(what
> version of a piece of software that is used) in order to compensate for
> inadequate software(build/package systems that can't handle this version
> difference). It should go in the other direction.
>
> I can't comment on how important the impact of this change is, but I think
> it is a severe usability impact if a version is coded in a command line
> utility's name.

IMO the switch from KDE 3 to 4 is not a simple version number change.
KDE 4 is completely different to KDE 3.
It's not source compatible, it's not binary compatible, it uses DBUS instead 
of DCOP, Phonon instead of arts, it's not cli-tool compatible (e.g. dbus 
instead of dcop tools), other module organization, ...

So the one who wants to know something about KDE, probably knows whether he 
wants KDE 3 or KDE 4.

Bye
Alex
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