KDE/4.11 branched what to do with kde-workspace?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 18 July 2013, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Tuesday, July 16, 2013 22:03:51 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 July 2013, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > On Monday 15 July 2013 14:42:14 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 18:57:41 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > > So the kde-workspace dudes decided they don't want a 4.12 release
> > > > > and that they'll do a LTS 4.11, fine, how do we fix that branch
> > > > > wise?
> > > > 
> > > > After carefully reading everybody's opinion, I would like to make
> > > > kde-
> > > 
> > > > workspace master our KF5/Qt5 branch, for the following reasons:
> > > +1, could we please get this going. The whole thread turned into quite
> > > some bikeshedding which is disappointing.
> > > 
> > > I think there is a very good suggestion with the CMake option to fail
> > > the build.
> > 
> > I must have missed that.
> > 
> > Just the obvious that the cmake run of plasma needs to require a high
> > enough  version number of KF5 ?
> 
> We require at least Qt 5.2, that should be satisfying this requirement, no?
> (Anything Plasma can't reasonably build against Qt4, since we've moved to
> QtQuick 2, and that is far from source compatible. (It's also the reason
> why we need to start on this sooner rather than later, Plasma, compared to
> other frameworks, requires more porting work.
> 
> If the Qt 5.2 requirement is not enough, tell me what to do, and I'll do
> it. KF5 is not versioned, but no worries, 

Yes, that came to my mind the last days too.
I guess it should be, shouldn't it ?
I mean, currently everything is already "5.0.0".
Should we set this back to 4.99.0, SOVERSION 5, or so ?

> kde-workspace won't even build
> on top of last weeks kdelibs[frameworks]. This is something that requires
> a bit of adjustment, maybe reintroduce BIC/SIC Mondays again at some
> point? 

I guess this will be more interesting than before once everything has been 
split into separate repositories...

Alex