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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Application version numbers
From: Dominik Haumann <dhdev () gmx ! de>
Date: 2009-01-22 9:25:27
Message-ID: 200901221025.28005.dhdev () gmx ! de
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On Thursday 22 January 2009, John Tapsell wrote:
> Is it possible to have an application version just simply be the
> version number of KDE?
>
> The version numbers tend to be confusing. For example, kate is
> released with each KDE release. It follows the KDE releases exactly,
> so shouldn't the kate version be simply the KDE release version?
>
> Instead kate is at version 3.1.3, while KDE is at version 4.1.3.
> It makes bug reporting kinda confusing. If I say that I have a
> problem with kate 3, people generally think that I mean the version of
> kate that came with KDE3.. And Konsole is at version 2.1.
We had that discussion on kwrite-devel recently as well, but the general
consense is that we won't increase the Kate and KatePart version.
If you talk about Kate3, just say "Kate in KDE4" (that what I do) and
everything should be clear.
Dominik
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