The case for a kdelibs 4.8

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, September 29, 2011 18:11:12 Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Wait and see the chaos that will come up when users open their Help/About in
> Konqueror and it tells them that they're using "Konqueror 4.8.0 under KDE
> 4.7.6". (And yes, it still says only "KDE" in 4.6.5, I haven't checked 4.7
> or 4.8 for whether that's fixed there.)

it says "KDE Development Platform x.y.z".

> >> The rule so far has always been that the kdelibs
> >> version must be the same as the KDE SC version.
> > 
> > There is no rule – at most a common practise
> 
> A "common practice" which had been enforced by minimum required kdelibs
> versions in CMakeLists.txt.

for, e.g. kde-workspace, that minimum version for kdelibs is 4.7. it may be 
even lower for other modules (many apps probably compile with rather older 
kdelibs than that). this really isn't an argument for or against a 4.8 ..

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20110930/d251d071/attachment.sig>