[Kde-pim] Check the version of kdepim-runtime?

[Andreas Hartmetz]

Hi all,

Yesterday I discovered kdepim-runtime and that it might have caused many of 
the problems I've had with KMail 2. It was so broken for me that I had to go 
back to KMail 1.
What do you think about versioning kdepim-runtime (e.g. in the desktop files of 
the agents) and increasing the version number after each major bugfix or each 
bugfix release?
Then kdepim could check the version at runtime and notify unsuspecting users 
of the problem, instead of failing silently. Other KDE apps also version their 
plugins and have version dependencies.

We just had an IRC discussion about the issue and I don't buy that there is  
not actually a problem. I don't read the README of everything I use, I expect 
software to tell me in some way if an important dependency is missing or 
outdated. Version numbers are not only for binary compatibility.

Cheers,
Andreas
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