The day of seperation is here

[Christoph Cullmann]

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 23:01, Roland Krause wrote:
> Ooops, very sorry for sending the last email.
> I hit the browser send button, and feel like the fool I am right now.
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> Anyway, friends, the day of seperation is here, lets get it over now.
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> A fork can no longer be prevented.
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> We have two possibilities.
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> 1 Rename gideon to KDevelop, and move KDevelop under a new name to
> kdenonbeta. The name I like to suggest is Kollide.
>
> 2 Move gideon to kdenonbeta and leave its name.
I like the current KDevelop 2.x stuff very much (because it WORKS (mostly) and 
compiles here) and therefor would vote for making the current 
KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH the new HEAD. Gideon is a nice "framework" but seems to be 
far from completion or even a stage where you can actually do something 
usable with it (and that didn't change since more than a half year). The 
original creator of the HEAD stuff (I think Bernd was it or ?) seems to have 
left the stuff laying around half working and to get the stuff into a usable 
scheme a big rework (like mhk wants to do it and has started to do it) would 
be needed. But why put that much work into a new but broken thingy and not 
put the work into moving parts of the good ideas from gideon to the working 
kdevelop 2.x stuff ? The parts idea behind gideon is the great thing of it 
and with a bit work (as robe has shown) we can adapt that for 2.x. 
KTextEditor for 2.x is in a reachable near as the kate interfaces differ not 
much from plain ktexteditor (some stuff is perhaps missing, but that 
interfaces we could add for kde 3.1 to the libs).

As I am not a real kdeveloper my opinion should be seen as the opinion of a 
user/external dev ;) and it would be: tag the current head as GIDEON_BRANCH, 
move the KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH to head and steal interesting parts/interfaces 
from gideon for kdevelop.

cu
Christoph

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Christoph Cullmann
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