Thoughts on when to put/remove applications to/from CVS

Aaron J. Seigo kde-policies@mail.kde.org
Sat, 21 Dec 2002 16:37:29 -0700


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On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:14, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> "An application built against KDE 3.0 will run without modification using
> any future release of the KDE3 libraries."
> (the same for source compatibility).
>
>  I would hesitate to guarantee this 100%. IMHO it should state something
> about documented public API and sane usage (not leaning on side-effects,
> undocumented behaviour and such things). There may be fixes or different

good point. i've added a footnote saying as much...

>  BTW, 'Free Software(TM)' is written with both F and S capitalized AFAIK.
> Moreover I think KDE has always called itself Open Source rather than Free
> Software.

it now says Open Source software.

i've also gone thorugh and simplified the preamble quite a bit and touched up 
several grammatical and spelling errors that were in there. i'd really like 
to see something like this be officially published by the KDE community of 
creators as i think it is would be an important aide in keeping and 
attracting third party developers.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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