The case for a kdelibs 4.8

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Sep 30 18:22:37 BST 2011


A Divendres, 30 de setembre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure:
> 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.

As I already said in this thread, that is Dirk's plan as he stated in the 
Release Team BoF in Berlin.

Albert

> 
> Alex




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