Fwd: Re: [Kde-cvs-announce] Dev Platform Tagging Freeze Next Week

[Matt Rogers]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:23:32 Tom Albers wrote:
> At Wednesday 07 November 2007 13:03, you wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch 07 November 2007 schrieb Thomas Zander:
> > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 11:34:05 Sebastian K�gler wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 09:51:50 Tom Albers wrote:
> > > > > It's news to me too.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't think this should be done this way. kdesupport follows
> > > > > kdelibs release path.
> > > > >
> > > > > So they should not use trunk kdesupport to work on the next
> > > > > version. In case they want to work on the next version, maybe they
> > > > > should move to extragear/libs like any other application/library.
> > > >
> > > > We need to document that then (adding qca2 to the techbase build
> > > > instructions then). If we switch to a released qca in this state,
> > > > it'd also need some testing.
> > >
> > > Wasn't the original reason for kdesupport to put code there that was
> > > required for building KDE?
> >
> > Somewhen in '98 - yes. But that doesn't mean the original reason for
> > kdesupport is still the current one.
> >
> > And no, our policy is that we only put into kdesupport what is not
> > available elsewhere.
>
> I think that thanks to our releases up to now, all distro's have packaged
> qca(2) now, that's why I proposed to move it to extragear now.
>
> > > In light of that concept the stable version should stay in kdesupport. 
> > > I doubt Tom wanted to remove it from kdesupport.
>
> Well, more or less. Either there is a stable - essential/required - version
> in kdesupport and a development branch somewhere else or qca moves to
> extragear/libs and releases tarballs reguallary which are the requirement
> for kde.
>
> What I would not like is a version of qca in kdesupport which *can not* or
> should not be used to compile kdelibs (as seem to be the case now).
> kdesupport should support kdelibs at any time, hence follow its release
> schedule.
>
> Toma

qca from current kdesupport trunk is working fine. I compile with it on a 
daily basis. AFAIK, the only place QCA is currently used at the moment is in 
kdenetwork for kopete. Perhaps we should let things stand as they are for now, 
recommend the minimum to be 2.0.0 and reevaluate the issue when more modules 
start to use it.
--
Matt