[Kst] Reverts, and 3.1

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 03:19, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> >    I think the only appropriate solution is to stay with 3.1,
> > or to upgrade
> > -everyone- to 3.4.
>
> Maybe this is a stupid suggestion, but wouldn't it be possible to
> install KDE 3.4 on the machines running RedHat 9.0 as it seems to be the
> cause for all problems ? I understand it may be difficult to
> reinstall/upgrade the complete OS on all machines, but a KDE upgrade
> should be fairly easy to automate, especially if all machines have the
> same setup as seems to be the case.
> Compiling KDE 3.4 under RH9 should still more or less work (maybe some
> libs need to be updated, but that does not sound too complicated). It
> can probably either be compiled from sources (with konstruct) or
> installed using kde-redhat packages (http://kde-redhat.sf.net, but I
> don't know if they have KDE 3.4 for RH9). I have no idea whether
> upgrading to KDE 3.4 could have side-effects, but in the worst case it
> can be installed in a non-standard location alongside the "official" KDE
> version and the version can then be selected at login time.
>
> This scenario would have at least two benefits:
> 1) in terms of development: less time wasted in maintaining 3.1
> compatiblity and fixing occasional problems, cleaner code base and
> possibly nice new possibilities
> 2) from the user's perspective: KDE 3.4 is _really_ much better than 3.1
> !!

  We've been going through this, but there are very many issues.  It's not 
just RedHat9 too.  There are people on other platforms.  Someone has to 
actually migrate all of these machines, and they have to be fully tested.  
They're approaching production use at this point...

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