Tier 3 depending between eachother

[Hugo Pereira Da Costa]

On 12/08/2013 11:46 AM, David Faure wrote:
> On Saturday 07 December 2013 17:57:31 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> Looking at Aurélien's graphs i see that there seem to be a few Tier 3 things
>> depending on other Tier 3 things.
> Yep, that's perfectly fine, it's the definition of tier3, see the first
> section in http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Policies.
>
>> Why is that? And what's the difference between a Tier 3 thing that depends
>> on another Tier 3 thing and a Tier 4 thing?
> Tier4 is very special: it's for things that offer additional integration
> automatically (without providing an API, so more like plugins).
> And for things which are deprecated and sit on top of everything else.
>
> In other words: "pure-KF5" applications shouldn't link to anything from tier4.
mmm. What about kstyle then ? (tier4/frameworkintegration/src/kstyle)
used to make easier kf5 widget styles ? (hence definitly not a plugin)

> The API layer stops at tier3.
>