Discover and Kirigami

[Jonathan Riddell]

This was discussed in the meeting today, seems a mistake was made in
not freezing this properly.  After some discussion it was decided the
best options was to go with the Kirigami 1.1 release which is out
today.

Jonathan


On 26 September 2016 at 18:04, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> The Plasma dependency freeze was on the 9th of September.
>
> Discover, at dependency freeze, depends on Kirigami 1.0
> (and btw, still does)
>
> With Kirigami 1.0 my plasma-discover crashes on boot:
>
> QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
> qrc:/qml/DiscoverWindow.qml:128 Type DiscoverDrawer unavailable
> qrc:/qml/DiscoverDrawer.qml:103 Kirigami.Separator is not a type
> KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
>
> I don't need to explain why this fails to run.
>
> What I apparently do need to explain is the dependency freeze rule.
>
> "After the dependency freeze, you can't change external dependencies on
> anything outside Plasma.".  Rules can suck, but they're there for a reason.
>
> If we can't manage 3 weeks without following the simple rules that ensure we
> don't break  everything, we won't be able to manage 18 months.
>
> David