Tier 3 depending between eachother

[David Faure]

On Sunday 08 December 2013 12:41:17 Hugo Pereira Da Costa wrote:
> 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)

*Applications* don't generally link to kstyle.

Only styles and windeco plugins do.

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