The day of seperation is here

[Mathieu Chouinard]

[Christoph Cullmann reply]:
> 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.
> >
> > Anyway, friends, the day of seperation is here, lets get it over now.
> >
> > A fork can no longer be prevented.
> >
> > We have two possibilities.
> >
> > 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
>
> > Roland
I agrre with that
Mathieu

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