KF5 kio-extras and future releases
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Sun Apr 28 11:43:05 BST 2024
I have not included a package of the kf5 branch of kio-extras in the KDE Gear
24.05 release.
At least two people have asked me about whether it should be included or not.
I honestly don't know what to say :D
In my mind it's a no and i'll explain the reasons below, feel free to disagree
or prove my points nonsense.
As far as I understand kio-extras-kf5 was created because:
A) We needed a KF6 kio-extras so that KF6 apps can use extra-kio stuff
B) We needed a KF5 kio-extras that could be coinstalled with the above KF6
kio-extras so that KF5 apps can use extra-kio stuff
Now, question is should we keep releasing kio-extras-kf5 or not?
Given KF5 kio is in a relatively deep freeze, no new changes in kio-extras-kf5
are going to be needed to adapt to changes in kio.
kio-extras-kf5 is extracted from a branch named "kf5" that I guess not many
developers are really paying attention to because it's neither master nor the
usual release/xx.yy branch.
It could happen that we need a very important bugfix to kio-extras-kf5 and it
would be commited to that branch and we would need to do a release.
But given how that doesn't seem super likely and how much of a pain it is to
our release process to release it (we need to release two tarballs from the
same repo but from different branches) I would really really say, no, we
don't release it with every single KDE Gear release (until we drop KF5
support), if there's any eventual bugfix we'll just release a new tarball (in
the 24.02.x naming?).
Cheers,
Albert
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