The case for a kdelibs 4.8

[Kevin Kofler]

Albert Astals Cid wrote:

> A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Kevin Kofler vàreu escriure:
>> 1. This puts kdelibs 4 into maintenance mode even before KDE Frameworks 5
>> is anywhere near a release, let alone versions of the workspace and
>> applications actually using it. As a result, we will fail to deliver new
>> features to our end users for months if not years. And no, kdelibs
>> features do not only target developers: Some application or workspace
>> features require kdelibs changes, or in some cases, even consist of
>> kdelibs changes only, e.g. my Plasma PackageKit integration work is
>> entirely in kdelibs (libplasma).
> 
> Please describe the features you need.

https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102175/
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102291/
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102350/

The first one was merged into master after 4.7 branched and before it got 
frozen and is now in limbo there, the other 2 are stuck in ReviewBoard.

> What you are describing is actually fine means that "old unmaintained"
> libraries are still useful, so I do not see that it helps to prove your
> point.

It shows that they are useful, but that distributions have to patch them 
because upstream does not take fixes nor required system integration 
features anymore, which is not very helpful.

        Kevin Kofler