On Wednesday 30 July 2003 16:34, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > > You have to face that HEAD development is harder to calculate if you > > don't include the time that you will need for recompiling newer stuff or > > kdelibs over and over to have a deskop that will become the next KDE > That's more than 25%. I currently estimate about additional 50% or more. > Both points you've raised are major drawbacks for deployment > of KDE in production environments on the cost side. Is this a problem of HEAD kdelibs/Qt, or of developing in KMail HEAD? I can't say that kdelibs/Qt cost me much time, I don't update very often (max. once per week, sometimes only every 1-2 months) and in the worst case I can always revert. Developing in a package like KMail, with a dozen other contributors working on things like Kontact is certainly difficult, no doubt, but this is neither a free software nor a KDE problem. If you want to minimize your effort you would have to ask other to stop contributing to KMail while you are working on it. bye...