adding new library deps to kcalc?

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:39:44 -0400,
Evan Teran wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently saw a bug report for kcalc involving a lack of precision
> with trig functions. The reason for this is that currently kcalc will
> convert the GMP value to a long double, do the trig function using the
> standard c lib, and then convert back.
> 
> So did a little looking around for a GMP like library that supports
> trig functions and I found one MPFR (http://www.mpfr.org/). It seems
> that it is modeled after GMP but has support for trig functions well.
> So my question is what is the kde policy with regard to adding new
> library dependencies?

As long as we're not in dependency freeze (which starts in November
11th for the 4.6 cycle, see [1]), it is perfectly OK to add new
dependencies to trunk.

[1] http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.6_Release_Schedule