RFC v2: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2009-04-23, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
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> the new new plan is this:
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> svn location: extragear/libs/knotificationitem
> headers: $INCLUDE_PATH/knotificationaitem-1/
> lib name: $LIB_PATH/libknotificationitem-1.so
> namespace: Experimental::
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> release of tarball done prior to kde 4.3.
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> will most likely be removed post-4.3 and rolled into kdelibs. if not, chang=
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> will results in a s,-1,-2,g to the above and another release.
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> objections?

Please do proper SOVERSIONing of the libraries.

/Sune


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> the results of this will end up being described as "how to get big changes=
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> the motivations:
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> * releasing new API without apps and user experience testing is bad practice
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> * not having a well described and moderately non-labor-intensive way to do=
>=20
> this results in people dumping things that aren't ready into kdelibs (see:=
>=20
> kde3)
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