kdenetwork 4.0 release?

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 01 June 2007 11:18:42 am Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Friday 01 June 2007 16:49:10 Urs Wolfer wrote:
> > I'm right now not sure what to do with the kdenetwork module... Not all
> > apps are working very well atm. Matt Rogers (mattr) thinks that Kopete will
> > not be ready for 4.0. KRDC is also not ready so far. Probably I will get it
> > done for 4.0. I don't know yet.
> >
> > Apps that will be ready for sure are only Krfb and KGet. Filesharing and
> > lanbrowsing: I have not tested them yet. Laurent Montel worked on them and
> > thinks that they will be ready. Kppp seems to work, but I have no posibilty
> > to test it.
> >
> > I will drop the remaining apps (Kpf, KWifiManger, KDict) the next monday as
> > I have written already a mail to this list.
> >
> > What do you think? Should we release kdenetwork 4.0 and just disable the
> > apps that are not ready in the release? (Of course, we are not going to
> > release not working apps...) Or should we not release kdenetwork at all?
> 
> What would be the added value of not releasing kdenetwork with 4.0 at all? Why 
> is a module with three working apps in it (and which is likely to g row after 
> 4.0) insufficient to be added? To me, it sounds pretty normal that a) modules 
> need to be slimmed down (because of lack of porting / maintainership) and b) 
> at the beginning of a major release cycle, modules start off smaller.
> 
> IOW, why should "kopete is not ready for KDE4.0" affect kget getting in? 
> AFAIK, technically there is no dependency.

I'm not a packager so I don't know, but...
does it makes distro packaging harder?  If there is no kdenetwork4.0
then the distro can ship a kdenetwork3.5.7 with apps that should
work under the 4.0 desktop. i.e. they won't have to break out a
separate kopete-3.5.7 + kdenetwork-4.0 ??

maybe?