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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: a strigi bic change
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-01-13 20:51:02
Message-ID: 200901132151.02507.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> 2009/1/13 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>:
> > Now let's say that developer still has strigi < 0.6.3 and this is good
> > enough for his project.
> > If you increase the minimum supported version of FindStrigi.cmake, his
> > project will suddenly not build anymore, because FindStrigi.cmake will
> > abort with an error now -> source compatibility broken.
> >
> > What would be ok would be to abort with an error if version 0.6.2 has
> > been found, because if I understood correctly you don't want this version
> > to be used by anybody.
>
> Your assumption is that the distribution or the developer know how to
> install a good version.
> This is a reasonable assumption, I think.

Well, I just had the impression that you don't want to support version 0.6.2. 
So we should try to keep this version from spreading.

Alex
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