Which branch for kdevelop4?

[Matt Rogers]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:28, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that the development of kdevelop4 is about to take off, it's time to
> discuss something that has potentially been holding it back for a while:
> which version of kdelibs we develop against.
>
> The options:
> 1) Stay developing against the current kdelibs4_snapshot.
> Advantages:
> * breakage from externally is only infrequent
>
> Disadvantages
> * severe bugs tend to not get fixed, or get fixed in a non-timely manner.
> * some of the effort will have to be devoted to making sure snapshot is
> usable.  The big example here is katepart, which is broken in snapshot for
> anyone actually wanting to use it.
> * if there is an improvement in interfaces in kdelibs, it takes quite some
> time for us to be able to make use of them.
>
> 2) Start developing against kdelibs4 trunk.
> Advantages:
> * quick bugfixes
> * exposure to new apis as they emerge
>
> Disadvantages:
> * external breakage can come at any time
>
> So, opinions?  For now, I am happy to backport the kate bugfixes so we can
> actually work with snapshot...
>
> Cheers,
> Hamish.

I see advantages to both situations, but I think for the moment backporting 
the kate bugfixes is the right thing to do, just because we don't need to be 
fixing breakages from kdelibs trunk all the time.

-- 
Matt