[kde-promo] KDE Frameworks 5 promo

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 02 July 2014 10:35:29 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 July 2014 23:13:24 David Faure wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 July 2014 16:16:48 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > KDE Frameworks 5 gets its first release this week, anyone want to help
> > > me
> > > with a Dot story and release announcement?
> > 
> > For linking from the announcement, I committed source-kf-5.0.0.inc
> > to www/info
> 
> I'll try to help where I can. I've set up a etherpad:
> https://notes.kde.org/p/Frameworks5.0
> 
> I wrote the first 3 sentences explaining what Frameworks is. But I'll need
> to know some details about the first release and links  to the full list of
> frameworks, tarballs etc.
> Some questions:
> * What is the final on the release schedule?

Public release on Monday 7.

BTW the release schedule for the next releases is up at
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/Frameworks

> * What Qt version is this made for?

Qt >= 5.2

> * any caveats developers should be aware off?

The KAuth framework is not working on linux at the moment
(unreleased dependency polkit-qt-1 + crash in Qt 5.2/5.3).

(so basically it only works on Mac, since it has no backend for Windows)

The only reason we're releasing it is that other things (kconfigwidgets, 
Plasma Next) depends on it to compile. But we know that this particular bit of 
functionality (running configuration modules as root) is broken for now.

> * where can you 'get started' with Frameworks?

Good question.
I think
http://api.kde.org/frameworks-api/frameworks5-apidocs/
is the main starting point for using frameworks.

(Comment for K-F-D : I just noticed that this page uses the terms 
"functional", "integration" and "solution" without explaining what that means)

For compiling them from sources we don't really have docu, we expect people to 
use distro packages instead. Compiling all of them from sources "by hand" 
would be quite painful, compared to using kdesrc-build which handles 
dependencies.
Of course compiling a single tier1 framework (after compiling ECM) is easy.

> Anything else? Please, shoot any ideas you have that users (that is Qt
> developers in case of Framework) should be aware off...

Out of ideas for now, I'll let other chime in.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5
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