Requested Moratorium on hard to build dependency bumps for KDE 5

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 09:32:09 AM Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 Jun, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > Restricting ourselves to old versions (and as a developer anything
> > released is old for me) means to restrict the power we have and
> > undermines our very development model.
> 
> In my opinion, almost always needing the development version of e.g. GTK is
> what is keeping GIMP a project with hardly any contributors. But that's an
> application, not a framework. Still -- if you want to have a healthy
> project with many contributors, making it hard to develop by requiring
> lots of unpackaged isn't a good idea.

I fully agree.

Alex