Plasma and Frameworks Release issue

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, December 26, 2017 5:57:32 PM CET David Edmundson wrote:
> We have a frameworks and Plasma release schedule issue again.
> 
> We have new API (Package::fileUrl literally everwhere and I have something
> minor in kwin) that requires frameworks 5.42
> 
> This frameworks release comes out on the 6th of Jan.
> The beta comes out on the 4th.
> 
> We cannot make a release that depends on unreleased code.
> 
> The release schedule does explicitly say "depends on frameworks 5.41" and
> it's my fault for not noticing that when reviewing.
> 
> Last kickoff meeting we agreed that a beta should always be just after a
> frameworks release (see kickoff 5.11 notes) after the last time N times
> this happened, so I'm not sure how we ended up with those dates chosen.
> 
> For now options are:
>  - revert that change and  #ifdef use of appmenu protocol in kwin
>  - delay our beta release for a few days (tagging and tarballs can still
> happen on the scheduled day)
> 
> Personally I'd favour option 2.

I prefer option 2 as well, ifdefs make our code base much harder to maintain 
and test.
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sebas

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