FW: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones + Nepomuk

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Allen Winter wrote:
> 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 Trüg 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.

it requires kdelibs. so kdesupport, or at least parts of it, would now depend 
on kdelibs. that would be awkward imho.

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