The case for a kdelibs 4.8
Alexander Neundorf
neundorf at kde.org
Fri Sep 30 18:10:39 BST 2011
On Thursday 29 September 2011, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:43:34 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> > Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to
> > me...
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
>
> wrote:
> > > 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to
> > > have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. [...]
> >
> > ...what exactly stops you from advertising kdelibs 4.7.x as version
> > 4.8? (And I mean "advertise", so only the user-visible parts, not
> > version numbers in .so files or whatever.)
>
> Now that would add a lot of confusion.
Can the version number of kdelibs 4.7.x simply be increased to 4.8 when 4.8 is
branched ?
It would have only bugfixes, but it seems it would make life simpler for some
people.
Alex
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