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Subject: Re: Broken KDE Admin Dir
From: Malte Starostik <malte () kde ! org>
Date: 2003-01-20 20:53:39
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On Monday 20 January 2003 21:36, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > Well, if the developer really wants to have his app to compile still with
> > KDE 3.0 then he shouldn't use the HEAD admin dir, but 3_0_BRANCH.
>
> Hmm, you are stating a conclusion without any supporting reasoning :-). My
> query is: what is the advantage of breaking compilations for third-party
> KDE developers? It certainly is easy enough to add MIN_CONFIG(3.1) to the
> 8 kde core package configure.in.in scripts or whatever, but trying to
> communicate the need to change something so obscure to the thousands of
> independent KDE developers is a lot more cumbersome, wouldn't you agree?
To me this sounds a bit like asking for kdebase HEAD not to rely on any
kdelibs features introduced after 3.0. If a developer wants to write a KDE
3.0 app, it seems pretty logical that he is to use a 3.0 admin dir as well,
doesn't it?
> > Better tell then the developer who made that fault.
>
> IMO the fault clearly lies in the acinclude.m4.in file. It is a simple
> 2-character change that will fix the problem, which certainly is a lot
> easier than trying to chase down all developers who erroneously believe
> that the admin dir uses reasonable defaults and will not artificially try
> to restrict their user-base. I say, better to make the defaults
> reasonable.
HEAD modules are for HEAD. Always been like that and I don't know why this
should change.
Regards,
-Malte
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