Versioning of Frameworks

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday, May 08, 2015 10:32:22 Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2015, at 05:38 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
...
> > The versioning would be a complete mess: each framework having
> > a
> > different version number, some doing bug fix releases, some don't.
> 
> ...that "complete mess" is just actual versioning instead of a timestamp
> that is applied to everything.
> 
> To me "frameworks" is on one side a the umbrella term for all
> frameworks, and on the other hand a distribution of kde-related libraries.
> What it seems to be treated as largely is one gigantic library
> consisting of 62 submodules, which is IMO a shame since so much work has
> been put into splitting these modules up, and making these libraries
> reusable by third parties.
> So I don't really understand why we now have to continue treating all
> libaries within frameworks as something special instead of just like any
> other library out there.

So +1 ...

...
> Appart from the communcation aspect, we make library updates
> unnecessarily risky because of
> the complete frameworks dependency tree getting pulled in (so you have
> to pull in 8 updates instead of 1),
> which is probably the biggest problem in an enterprise environment.

Same here, +1

Alex