RFC: Draf for kdevplatform Announcement

[Matt Rogers]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just comitted the kdevelop/lib code to the new platform, so I  
> think we
> should create an announcement mail and send it to the major kde/qt
> related development list (kde-devel, kdevelop-devel, qt-interest, any
> others)

Why?

>
> Here's a first draft, to be improved (I'm not that much of a writer ;)
>
> KDevPlatform Module created
> ---------------------------
>
> The KDevPlatform module aims at helping to create IDE like  
> applications.
> The KDevPlatform provide a user interface library, an application  
> shell,
> a plugin system and extendable interfaces for various IDE-related  
> tasks.
> On top that it comes with a couple of useful and needed plugins that
> implement some of the interfaces and provide some basic functionality
> like a project view, cvs and subversion support, snippet plugin,
> displaying command output and a drilldown filemanager.
>
> To get an overview about the module see the Platform Information  
> section
> on
> http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php/KDevelop_4
>
> Note this module is still Alpha software, we will keep with the kde4
> policy of doing BIC changes only on mondays. The plan currently is to
> release this module with KDE4.1
>
> Andreas

Looks fine I suppose, although i would say we will release after KDE  
4.0 rather than saying we'll release with KDE 4.1 since we could  
release before 4.1 or after 4.1 and I think it's too soon to tell  
what we'll be doing. We'll know more once SoC is finished.
--
Matt