Increasing dependency of KDE to 4.3

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Jul 16 16:37:39 UTC 2009


On 16.07.09 16:57:58, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 16 Juli 2009 15:22:10 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the 4.3.0 release is "just around the corner" (about 2 weeks from now),
> > I'd like to discuss when we expect distributions to ship KDE 4.3, so
> > that we can depend on KDE4.3? I'm currently thinking about waiting 3-4
> > weeks and then do the next beta that includes an increased kde
> > dependency.
> >
> > Opinions?
> At least right now, I don't see a reason for us to do it at all. There has 
> been no relevant patches to kate.

But to kdelibs and in Qt, you don't get workingsets or the area-tabs
without KDE 4.3. Apart from that there's been quite a bit of bugfixes in
4.3 for kate (did you backport all of them to 4.2.x?)
 
> First thing we should do is wait until KDE 4.3 is released. Then, IMO we 
> should just not worry until the next important patch is fixed in kate that 
> will be backported to KDE 4.3 but not to KDE 4.2. Then is the time to increase 
> the dependency.

Kate isn't the only thing we care about :P

Andreas

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