Planned BIC change to polkit-qt-1

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quarta-feira 19 Maio 2010, às 15:23:56, Tom Albers escreveu:
> >>> I will commit (after some further changes/discussion) these changes on
> >>> 
> >>> monday to:
> >>>  - kdesupport/polkit-qt-1
> >>>  - extragear/base/polkit-kde-1 - for the agent and the (still WIP) kcm
> >>>  - KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/auth - for the KAuth backend
> >>> 
> >>> Again, needless to say that if your application is using KAuth you are
> >>> not affected by any of these changes, just be sure to update all three
> >>> components at the same time.
> >>> 
> >>> Any objections before I do this?
> >> 
> >> Yes. We are in dependency freeze. This violates that.
> > 
> > Is this applicable also after Beta 1 has been released? If that is true
> > sorry for that, I clearly remembered wrong.
> > 
> > In this case I'd like ask for an exception for Beta 2, since this change
> > is not fundamental, but quite important (the only freeze-affected part
> > would be kdelibs of course).
> 
> All freezes lasts until the final release, unless specified otherwise.

In other words, your proposal is for SC 4.6, released early next year.

However, a compromise might be to support both APIs in the 4.5 timeframe, 
making polkit-qt-1 1.0 an optional dependency.

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