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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: renaming kde-config to kde4-config
From:       André_Wöbbeking <Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de>
Date:       2006-06-26 21:07:39
Message-ID: 200606262307.40312.Woebbeking () onlinehome ! de
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On Monday 26 June 2006 21:25, Frans Englich wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 19:03, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to rename kde-config for KDE 4 to kde4-config.
> > This will avoid ambiguities. When calling "kde4-config ..." one
> > will always get the information for KDE 4, not for KDE 3 because
> > the KDE3 kde-config was earlier in the PATH.
> > We may run into even more issues if some distributions might decide
> > to name the kde-config of KDE4 kde4-config, in order to be able to
> > install it in the same dir as the KDE3 one.
> > This happens right now with qmake, in debian there is qmake,
> > qmake-qt3 and qmake-qt4, and leads to a lot of trouble if you want
> > to autodetect some version of Qt.
> > I'd like to avoid these issues completely by just naming it
> > explicitely kde4-config.
>
> I think it is sad if users must be aware of implementation
> details(what version of a piece of software that is used) in order to
> compensate for inadequate software(build/package systems that can't
> handle this version difference). It should go in the other direction.

I think the question is who is using kde-config? I doubt that it's the 
average user so he won't care. But he'll complain when he can't run 
kde3+4 apps at the same time.

AFAIK kde-config is for build systems, developers and maybe internals of 
KDE.


Cheers,
André

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