The case for a kdelibs 4.8

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 29 September 2011, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:

...
> > The KDE Frameworks 5.0 development is not meant to take forever. In fact
> > I think it's meant to be finished around early 2012, which would leave
> > us with a frozen kdelibs for one KDE SC release, maximum two. It's also
> > not a huge *we will break everything! Kittens will die!* release, but
> > basically just a restructuration of the code, with little to no
> > adjustments necessary for applications. (that was how it was marketed,
> > anyway). 

There will be changes necessary, but they will be small and/or scriptable.

> > The way I understood it was that there could very well be a KDE
> > SC 4.9 release shipping a 4.9 workspace on top of 5.0 frameworks.

That's the idea.
 
> I don't think a date of early 2012 is realistic at all. With upstream
> already working on Qt 5, I think it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to
> break everything twice, once for KDE Frameworks 5 and once for Qt 5. Yet I
> strongly doubt that Qt 5 will be out so soon.

That's right.

Alex