Versioning of Frameworks

[David Faure]

On Saturday 09 May 2015 13:08:35 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> we pretend it's all independent libraries but still they all depend on the
> latest version of all other libs.

It's a question of the definition of "independent".

E.g. KCoreAddons and Solid are independent because you can use either one 
without being forced to use the other. The fact that they are released 
together doesn't change that.

KCoreAddons and KIO are partially independent because KIO depends on 
KCoreAddons, but still there is a huge improvement there compared to the 
kdelibs4 situation where such inter-library-dependencies were far too numerous 
so it was basically all-or-nothing.

Having split two such libraries still helps tremendously, since one can use 
KCoreAddons without using KIO. The fact that KIO-5.10 requires 
KCoreAddons-5.10 is IMHO no different from the fact that QtGui-5.6 requires 
QtCore-5.6. Are you saying that Qt didn't "go all the way" or didn't "split 
properly" because of the fact that QtGui-5.6 requires QtCore-5.6?
(same thing with other Qt libs from other modules than qtbase, this isn't 
limited to qtbase)

I still don't understand why this is fine for Qt and not for KDE Frameworks.

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