The day of seperation is here
Mathieu Chouinard
chouimat at videotron.ca
Wed Mar 27 01:37:03 UTC 2002
[Harald Fernengel reply]:
> Hi,
>
> > A fork can no longer be prevented.
>
> Sorry, forking is not an option.
>
> Forking will split up the development team even more (and there are few
> enough anyways). It will lead to more code duplication and finally we'll
> have two half-finished versions. Not to mention web-sites and all the other
> stuff.
>
> We did a major step forward by integrating Gideon parts into KDevelop2 and
> this was a step in the right direction.
>
> Now that we can use Gideon parts in KDevelop2 I suggest calling them
> "KDevelop parts" since this is what they are. PARTS of KDevelop. Code for
> an IDE that kicks ass. Code that belongs into the MAIN branch.
>
> Whether we choose KDevelop2 or Gideon as main IDE is not that important, I
> don't care about different branches or maybe even move Gideon core away,
> but the modular design has to survive.
>
> I suggest that we stick to the release plan made by Falk:
> - try to get KDE_2_2_BRANCH as stable as possible
> - hack support for KDevelop parts into KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH.
>
> After that we can decide again what will be the new "official" KDevelop
> core.
>
> Best regards,
> Harry
I agree with that. Gideon got multilanguage support and modularity, Kdevelop2
got stability, why not merge the two?
Mathieu
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