[Kroupware] KDE3.2 release

[Bo Thorsen]

(I'm crossposting this to the kmail and kdepim lists, since there might be 
more people out there that are confused of the current development.)

On Wednesday 04 February 2004 00:30, Darren Poulson wrote:
> Is there a version of kdepim that can be downloaded via CVS with some
> more kolab features in it? If so, how do you download it? I've tried
> getting cvs with -r kroupware_branch, but that seemed to miss a lot of
> files.

Hi,

If you want the original kroupware project software, you should use the 
kroupware_branch. However, if you want the current development, you need 
to use cvs HEAD. This will work with KDE 3.2, and will continue to do so 
for the release of kdepim 3.3. So you do not need to run cvs HEAD of any 
other KDE parts, but can stay with the stable branch.

If some of you picked up the name "osnabrueck_branch", you should forget 
this. It was just a temporary branch we developed in during the feature 
freeze of the pre-3.2 launch period. Now that HEAD is open for 
development, this branch is completely dead.

I know all this can be a bit confusing, so here is the overview:

kroupware_branch is for the old release only. It runs with KDE 3.1.4 and 
you can see the build instructions on 
http://www.kroupware.org/howto-kolab-kde-client.html. With this, you get 
the kroupware project packages. Almost no development has been done on 
these packages for the last six months though.

KDE 3.2 can be downloaded with the released tarballs or with the cvs 
branch KDE_3_2_BRANCH (cvs checkout -r KDE_3_2_BRANCH module, where 
module is kdebase, kdelibs, kdepim...). KDE releases are always tagged 
like KDE_3_2_0_RELEASE, so you can fetch that one with
cvs checkout -r KDE_3_2_0_RELEASE module. With this, you get the Kontact 
that has the new KDE 3.2 developments and most kroupware_project 
features, but misses the important groupware scheduling parts.

kdepim development branch is done in cvs HEAD (cvs checkout kdepim), and 
compiles and runs with all KDE 3.2 releases/branches. This is the 
development we all think of as a "Kontact 1.0" release, where one of the 
features is that Kontact will be a full Kolab client.

These are the three options you have. All others are irrelevant now.

About Kontact: Remember that Kontact is a collection of the kdepim 
applications in one shell. The idea is sort of the same we did with 
kroupware_branch, but instead of KMail being the shell KOrganizer ran in, 
Kontact is the shell that KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressBook, KPilot, KNotes 
and a couple more will run in. You can still choose to run each of these 
applications as standalone, so you have a choice between Kontact or the 
individual applications. The features of, for example, KMail are the same 
wether you run it in Kontact or standalone.

Bo.
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