kio-extras and the KF5/KF6 period

Harald Sitter sitter at kde.org
Wed Jun 21 09:22:20 BST 2023


On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 11:23 PM Sune Vuorela <nospam at vuorela.dk> wrote:
>
> On 2023-06-20, David Redondo <kde at david-redondo.de> wrote:
> > Harald and I prototyped another solution to build a Qt
> >  5 and Qt 6 version out of the same repo and employed it on
> > plasma-integration: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-integration/-/
> > merge_requests/91
>
> Did I miss something or is this just branching but without having git to
> help us move stuff between versions?

Yes but no. If we have two branches we also need two tars and everyone
needs to do two things. If we have everything in the same branch then
everything is as usual. Also, the sources are so divergent that
picking is bound to be annoying.

HS


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