[KDE/Mac] kdesrc-build

[Mario Fux]

Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 15.04:08 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
> René,

Morning René and Jeremy

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 6:45 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday November 27 2014 14:14:16 Mario Fux wrote:
> > >Yes and that's not true. Or not properly written: KDE apps 4.x are
> > >working _beneath_ Qt5-based once. But I think we agree and it's just a
> > >detail.
> > 
> > Well, I certainly did not want  to imply that KDE4 applications would be
> > using Qt5, but I *was* under the impression (illusion?) that some
> > backwards-compatibility flavour of kdelibs4 was part of KF5.
> > So what exactly do you mean with _beneath_ Qt5 based apps?
> 
> I think Mario mixed words. As I read his e-mail I cringed a bit also
> because "beneath" imlpies some sort of relationship. I would have said
> "Next to" in every case where he said "beneath".

Yes, sorry. Indeed I meant "next to" when writing "beneath". (But I was quite 
sure to know what "beneath" means ;-).

> As far as the other question about kdelibs4 in kf5. kf5 has a
> kdelibs4support framework that makes it somewhat a two step process to port
> from kdelibs4/qt4 to kf5/qt5. It contains many of the convenience classes
> and functions that kdelibs4 had so applications can first port to qt5/kf5
> with kdelibs4support then port away from kdelibs4support as a second step
> if wanted. It is similar to Qt3Support classes in Qt4 itself. Ideally
> applications should use Q* classes where they are available and any added
> functionality it K* classes isn't required. Also even with kdelibs4support
> porting an application from kdelibs4/qt4 to kf5/qt5 isn't trivial, but
> there are scripts in kde-dev-scripts/kf5 folder to help with most of the
> tasks involved.
> 
> Another possible reason to use the word "beneath" is that many applications
> that are still using Qt4/kdelibs4 are able to run under plasma 5. I've been
> using plasma5 for about half a year by now with not too many issues on
> linux. I still have kdelibs4 around to run amarok, kmymoney, and a few
> other applications that haven't been ported yet.
> 
> BR,
> Jeremy

Sorry
Mario