ANN: KDevelop 4.2 Beta 1 released

[Olivier JG]

On 12/18/2010 07:43 PM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 18.12.10 08:06:38, Davide wrote:
>> On Friday 17 December 2010 21:53:20 Milian Wolff wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of KDevelop 4.2 Beta 1.
>>> This is a testing version and any kind of feedback would be welcome and
>>> appreciated. Please use our bugtracker. You can download the sources or
>>> wait for your distribution to create packages.
>>>
>>> bug tracker: http://bugs.kde.org/
>>> sources:
>>> http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/kdevelop/4.1.80/src/
>>>
>>> Note: Anyone who runs KDE 4.6 or later needs this version (or any later).
>>> This is because the SmartRange interface in Kate got nuked and replaced
>>> with MovingRange interface. Many thanks to David Nolden for more or less
>>> single handedly porting KDevelop to this new architecture.
>>>
>>> The good news doesn’t end here though, KDevelop 4.2 ships with lots of
>>> notable changes and new features. See my blog for more details:
>>>
>>> http://milianw.de/blog/kdevelop-42-beta-2-released
>>>
>>> Considering the impact and amount of changes, testing would be very welcome
>>> in order to prevent regressions and similar in the final 4.2 version.
>>>
>>> Bye and thanks again to all contributors who made this possible. I’m
>>> especially thrilled to welcome so many new people, well done!
>> So is KDE 4.6 required to test it?
> Yes KDevelop 4.1 is meant for anybody using KDE 4.5, 4.2's main purpose
> is to have a version which works with KDE 4.6 as KDev-4.1 doesn't.
>
> Andreas
It works with KDE 4.6 (unlike kdevelop 4.1), but KDE 4.6 isn't required 
to use kdev 4.2. KDE 4.5.2 or later is ok I believe.
-Olivier JG