[RFC] KConfig API stuff

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On 10/21/07, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 01:06:30AM +0200, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > > We still need a goal to aim for to get something released.
> >
> > we could make a gamma release. makes sense, given that our milestone
> > quality standards are shifted by one anyway.
> >
> > fwiw, i'm all for a two-week (or something) kdelibs coding marathon,
> > with virtually all compatibility requirements dropped, but the
> > requirement that after the marathon one has to fix everything he broke.
>
> As long as this fixing occurs after the two week session and not with
> every kdelibs change.  It makes developing applications impossible if
> the kdelibs target keeps changing.

agreed. i've already been hit several times by this and i'd really like to 
have the rest of the time to work without further such interuptions.

we've already had a number of "go crazy in kdelibs" periods. at some point we 
need to simply realize that kdelibs will never be Perfect(tm), mostly because 
we're insane perfectionists with time and energy limits who can always find 
something wrong anyways. and then get on with the release. ;)

as for BC, i've already stated that i'll be breaking BC in libplasma in 4.1. 
that's in kdebase/workspace, so obviously not as sacred as kdelibs. but i 
have pretty much no choice as Qt 4.4 is coming with things that change 
certain semantics on us and renders a good chunk of the widget related code 
obsolete. at least one app outside of workspace is relying on libplasma right 
now, so at least one app is going to get a screwing (though they know about 
it, of course =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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