[Kde-pim] Make KDE PIM 4 installable in parallel to KDE PIM 3

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:29:27 Kevin Krammer wrote:
>
> I think having a separate KDEHOME just for a couple of applications will
> become very difficult to support, especially if later versions could use
> the main KDEHOME again.

That's right.

> > - Provide some import of config and data from KDE PIM 3 to KDE PIM 4
> > applications.
>
> I am not sure I understand this. Does it mean that right now KDE PIM 4
> applications can not read their version 3 config files?

They can, but if it is in another KDEHOME it needs to be copied if you want to 
reuse the config of another KDEHOME dir.

> > What do you think? Any ideas how to achieve it? Is it necessary at all?
>
> There might even be less to gain than we assume. Distributions which will
> use the same prefix for KDE3 and KDE4, e.g. because this is policy (Debian
> and derivatives), will very likely already struggle to get kdelibs and
> parts for kdebase (runtime) installable in parallel and will very likely
> just have "hardcoded" conflicts for all other packages.

I don't think there should be conflicts in the platform. The libraries have 
other versions and the binary from base have a 4 prefix.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org>
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