Tier 3 depending between eachother

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Diumenge, 8 de desembre de 2013, a les 11:46:10, David Faure va escriure:
> 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.
> 
> The API layer stops at tier3.

Thanks for the answer!

Cheers,
  Albert