Platform split

[Andras Mantia]

On Monday 01 May 2006 22:03, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> On Sunday 30 April 2006 06:02, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > also, the platform module will depend on snapshot like everything
> > else. :)
>
> I'd not do that. Really, what is the difference between trunk and
> snapshot? IMHO one - we will be forced to wait for kdelibs changes
> and fixes two weeks. That's not right.

The question: do you alway need the changes from trunk asap? Is KDevelop 
progressin really that fast and you have enough power to not want help 
from others, who port the whole KDE tree to the latest snapshot (the 
most active being Laurent Montel)? 

> Worry about possible breakages by changes in kdelibs? 

The real problem is that kdewebdev now requires partly snapshot and 
partly trunk and I cannot decide to follow either one. ;-) 

> Yes, that's 
> annoying. But in fact every two weeks (new kdelibs snapshot) we will
> be faced to the major breakage inside our code. I'd prefer to fix
> stuff incrementally and not dig in the kdelibs commit logs to know
> what was changed back in the time.

I can understand partly this, but I think you are wrong. The most 
important changes (like KIO:Job -> KJob) are tracked by some developers 
and they will fix it "for free". And you know for 2 weeks that you can 
work on functionality and not fixing compilation bugs. I think the best 
would be a 1 week syncing of snapshot, to not wait too long, but have a 
realtively stable base.

> Neither KDevelop nor KDevPlatfrom (and nor Quanta) are stable. Let's
> spend a bit more time at kdelibs tracking now and let's not slow down
> development.
Sincerely here I don't agree with you, but with Jens. Trying to fix 
compilation error in software that I don't care right now (like the 
codeview or whatever part), is more annoying than waiting for some new 
feature 2 weeks (and of course it is usually not two weeks, as that 
would mean introduction of the feature right after the snapshot is 
updated).

Andras
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