current state of KDE_DEPRECATED ?

[Thiago Macieira]

David Faure wrote:
>> Who's going to make sure that its behaviour is the expected behaviour
>> under KDE3?
>
>You mean KDE4.

No, I mean KDE3.

The KDE3 Support classes must have the same behaviour they did in KDE3, 
using the Qt4/KDE4 libraries. Who's going to do that work?

>Well, I did for some parts of K3ListView, for instance. Anyway a
> possible small bug in K3ListView is _much_ less of a problem than
> having to rewrite all the kde code that uses K3ListView right now !!!
>
>I don't think those "who's going to" questions lead anywhere. I could
> ask the same about the non-deprecated classes in kdelibs, and we all
> know that the answer isn't "there's an active maintainer for every
> class". You and I and a bunch of other people are trying to put some
> order into kdelibs, but still it doesn't mean you can answer "who's
> going to maintain class XYZ until KDE-4.x" even for a non-deprecated
> class.

I know. My point is: why add *more* classes to be maintained?

>> Qt3Support is a nice idea on Trolltech's part, but it has spoiled us.
>> I don't think that we, as KDE developers, can create a transition
>> library like Qt3Support. Think of all the old deprecated interfaces
>> that have *already* been removed, like the whole of KMdi.
>
>Sure. I don't miss kmdi. But I really think that a lot of the code would
> miss K3ListView if it went away now.

So, the question is: how long do we keep KDE3 support around for? Until 
4.2, 4.1 or the final 4.0 release? We could even release it as a separate 
package along with 4.0 and never again.

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