[KDE/Mac] KDE Platform Profiles: BIC changes

[Mike Arthur]

On 26 Apr 2010, at 09:52, Kevin Ottens wrote:

> Now I'm addressing you guys directly because we have one particular issue 
> which is in a grey area. We try to retain binary compatibility as much as 
> possible with our changes, but there's one type of change which would not 
> break binary compatibility on our main target but would break it on Mac, and 
> maybe on Windows (I'm getting mixed signals for this one).

> Hence this mail, I'd need to know if we'd be fine breaking binary 
> compatibility on those platforms in this case? It really depends on how big 
> the installed base is for KDE/Mac and KDE/Windows and how strong our 
> commitment on those targets is so far. Do we have any official "stable" 
> release on it? etc.

I don't think there's an official stable release on KDE/Mac. It's a bit of a weird situation because the distributions (Macports, Fink and now Homebrew) all contain patches to be able to build from trunk.

I don't think it would be the end of the world for us if this broke BC. The profiles stuff has the potential to make single application deployment easier in the long-term for Mac so I think it's worth the current sacrifice.

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Mike Arthur
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