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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: FW: [REMINDER] Upcoming KDE 4.0 Milestones + Nepomuk
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-04-11 16:35:57
Message-ID: 200704111835.58280.faure () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 11 April 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 11.04.07 17:27:18, Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 April 2007 15:18:44 Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 10. April 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > > I'll take a look on this in the next two weeks but it would be nice to
> > > > > make it optional until 4.1.
> > > >
> > > > this would realistically mean application integration in 4.2 or later.
> > >
> > > No. There can be applications making use of nepomuk by 4.1, and then we can
> > > include a polished and tested version of it in kdelibs for 4.1.
> > >
> > > if we put nepomuik into kdelibs for KDE 4.0, then we have to stay
> > > compatible with it (also binary compatibility).
> > 
> > that is actually a good point. So far not many people besides me have used the 
> > API for real. That is not the best situation for an API freeze.
> 
> Well, in the thread on the release-team list it was said that a binary
> incompatible 4.1 release is not completely out of question.

Binary incompatible doesn't mean source incompatible though. If the API isn't mature
enough, then even source compatibility might be an issue.

But where to put it meanwhile is a problem indeed; who uses nepomuk currently, or plans to use it?

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

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