[kde-linux] Building KDEPIM 4.7 from the GIT repository

[James Tyrer]

For several weeks building KDEPIM from GIT "origin/KDE/4.7" has failed 
with this error:

/usr/GIT/KDE/kdepim/messagecomposer/akonadisender.cpp:138: error: 
reference to 'Message' is ambiguous

However the tag v4.7.3 builds OK, indicating that the source was broken 
since release 4.7.3 was tagged.  Now, release 4.7.4 has been tagged and 
it will not build.

Has anyone even considered that quality control is a better idea than 
hubris?  Making changes to the code repository without first checking to 
see if the change will compile is simply a bad idea.  Checking before 
commit would be consistent with TQM, but if the developers had a copy of 
the current release branch built from source, the problem would soon be 
found.  As it is, KDE has no quality control (for the release branch) 
except for bug reports.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch