[Kde-extra-gear] KDE 3.2?

[Jeroen Wijnhout]

On Sunday 16 May 2004 20:22, George Staikos wrote:
> > The following policy was accepted by the majority some time ago:
> > > 1) Use the highest requirement off all applications for the entire
> > > module and let every application maintainer drop the requirements for a
> > > release or in their working directory. This solution is the least pain
> > > for those users likely to use CVS: People who use the latest stable
> > > KDE. This implies that no application is allowed to require CVS which
> > > used to be the implicit rule up to now anyways.
> >
> > Feel free to raise the requirement to KDE 3.2.
>
>   This is a problem for Kst.  Almost all of our users use KDE 3.1, at least
> half of our developers use KDE 3.1, and I don't foresee that changing any
> time soon.  Why can't we make a system whereby the individual applications
> choose their minimum requirement and are removed from compilation if those
> requirements are not met?

You are talking about users that run a CVS version of Kst? We discussed this a 
while ago, the above policy was the result. It's a compromise really, I can 
understand you want to require KDE 3.1 instead of KDE 3.2 as long as 
possible.

Note that the problem only arises for CVS users, packagers can (and should) 
modify the configure.in.in themselves. This way this problem shouldn't arise 
for the bulk of the users.

If you have a more elegant solution, I would be happy to learn about it.

best,
Jeroen
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