KDevelop team interview

[F@lk Brettschneider]

Hi!

Philippe FREMY wrote:

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>My god. So we have three branches. KDEVELOP 2, KDE 2 and Gideon!
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KDE_2_2_BRANCH is locked for further development. Only bugfixes for 
crashes are allowed to commit after a strong review procedure. We 
release the current 3 or 4 (but important) bugfixes as  KDevelop-2.1.1 
bundled in the KDE-3.0.1 release.

KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH was buried 3 weeks ago. It has moved to cvs HEAD in 
parallel to Gideon. So HEAD is containing the future versions, although 
there are 2 candidates at present.

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>Oooh. So only two branches now. Which branch is part of the official KDE 3
>release 
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Actually, KDevelop-2.1 is a new version for KDE-2. That's why it comes 
from the KDE_2_2_BRANCH. But we just changed about 30 lines and suddenly 
it also compiled and ran on KDE-3. So it was released as our new KDE-3 
version. Just Walter Tasin put additional effort in adapting the project 
templates to templates working on both KDE versions.

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>
>When are the other branches planned to be released ? 
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We will see which one is working first, Gideon or the one coming from 
the KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH. Several months it seemed Gideon will die, much 
effort was put in Roland's version. The last three weeks it has been the 
other way round. After a hot discussion to put Gideon on a branch 
development actions for Gideon suddenly heavily increased.

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>What are the differences between the various branches ? 
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The moved KDEVELOP_2_BRANCH in HEAD is almost identically to 
KDevelop-2.1 of the KDE_2_2_BRANCH except that the ancient KWrite copy 
was replaced with the current Kate part and that the GUI code was 
internally updated to the KAction approach. It's unfinished yet, even 
Roberto Raggi added a first attempt of replacing other code parts of 
KDevelop-2.1 with the appropriate Gideon plugins (KParts). It's not 
working yet and it broke the usability completely. So don't expect it 
working at the moment. ;-)

Gideon is the second attempt of a totally rewrite of KDevelop. It is 
absolutely based on KParts. Some of the plugins are ported code of 
appropriate KDevelop-1.4 code pieces, for instance the debugger part.

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>Who works on which branches ? 
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See www.kdevelop.org/index.html?filename=current_work.html to get a good 
survey.

Ciao
F at lk