[Kde-pim] KDEPIM 4.0

[David Jarvie]

On Friday 23 March 2007 2:03, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 20:17:08 mark at easymailings.com wrote:
>> > 2) The current state plus bug fixes based on and including the old
>> >
>> > libraries.
>> >
>> > That basically would mean that KDE PIM 4.0 is KDE PIM 3 ported to Qt4
>>
>> and
>>
>> > kdelibs 4.0 without a huge number of improvements. This would go
>>
>> against
>>
>> > the
>> >
>> > notion to get rid of old cruft.
>>
>> This seems safest and most likely to produce a stable release.
>>
>>
>> Maybe it could be sweetened by trying to pull in as many downstream
>> patches as possible.  That might be the easiest way to have more
>> hours put into pim.
>
> As unsexy as that may sound, I think Mark's right...  =:/

I agree. The public relations effect of releasing KDE4 without KDEPIM
wouldn't be good. Since KDE 4.0 looks like being more a showcase than a
really complete, dependable system, we can probably get away with this
approach, as long as the applications work reasonably without too many new
bugs.

>  Also, I don't think
> that doing this would preclude some much-needed refactoring, re-arranging
> and
> general cleanup after said hopefully-stable-yet-unsexy kdepim 4.0, would
> it?
> Couldn't it be stated openly that kdepim releases in the early 4.x series
> are not ABI-compatible and are a moving target?

KDEPIM doesn't have to be ABI-compatible between releases. That only
applies to kdepimlibs.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author & maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm

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