KDevelop 5

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Sven Brauch <mail at svenbrauch.de> wrote:
> Hey people,
>
> I think we should aim to do a 5.0 release real soon, we have been
> pushing that away for far too long imo. I think KDevelop 5 is working
> mostly fine right now, with the possible exception of the assistants and
> a few feature-regressions in the C++ plugin (code completion is just not
> as good as it used to be). Then again, the parsing is so much better now
> that it's most likely still a good deal for the users compared to 4.7.
>
> I would in fact suggest to merge the assistantpopup-ng branch, submit a
> few pending reviews, and call it done for 5.0. Yeah, the code assistants
> (esp. adapt signature) have a lot of issues, but at least they're not
> getting in the way any more with that branch. Maybe the 5.0 release even
> wins us a few people who are happy to look into that? ;)
> I'd just prefer having 5.0 now and 5.1 in two months a lot over having
> 5.0 in two months.
>
> What do you think?

I'd say it's better to discuss one thing at once.
I already said it in Randa, the branch looks quite polished, the only
way we get to know if it works well is by merging and testing on a
regular usage basis. Considering the current state, it's not very hard
that it will be an improvement.

Aleix