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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2011-01-12, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 January 2011 16:17:59 Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
> > 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 missing or outdated.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.
> 
> So, what is the exact techinical problem we are trying to protect against
> here? Binary or protocol incompatible changes? Or distro/user failure to
> not update kdepim-runtime to a recent version that has new bugfixes? IIUC
> we are mainly talking about the latter one, right?

There might still be this serializer issues,  i.e. when kdepimlibs newer than 
kdepim-runtime couldn't load (or discarded at search) serializer plugins.
(new entries required in .desktop files, etc).

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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