FW: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones + Nepomuk

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Wed Apr 11 18:51:07 BST 2007


On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:35:57 pm David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 11.04.07 17:27:18, Sebastian TrĂ¼g wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 11 April 2007 15:18:44 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, 10. April 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > > > I'll take a look on this in the next two weeks but it would be nice to
> > > > > > make it optional until 4.1.
> > > > >
> > > > > this would realistically mean application integration in 4.2 or later.
> > > >
> > > > No. There can be applications making use of nepomuk by 4.1, and then we can
> > > > include a polished and tested version of it in kdelibs for 4.1.
> > > >
> > > > if we put nepomuik into kdelibs for KDE 4.0, then we have to stay
> > > > compatible with it (also binary compatibility).
> > > 
> > > that is actually a good point. So far not many people besides me have used the 
> > > API for real. That is not the best situation for an API freeze.
> > 
> > Well, in the thread on the release-team list it was said that a binary
> > incompatible 4.1 release is not completely out of question.
> 
> Binary incompatible doesn't mean source incompatible though. If the API isn't mature
> enough, then even source compatibility might be an issue.
> 
> But where to put it meanwhile is a problem indeed; who uses nepomuk currently, or plans to use it?
> 

kdesupport?  alongside strigi sorta makes sense to me.

-Allen




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