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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Backwards compatibility of kdelibs/experimental
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2009-12-10 16:05:59
Message-ID: 200912101705.59954.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Tuesday 08 of December 2009, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Terça-feira 08 Dezembro 2009, às 19:43:56, Andreas Pakulat escreveu:
> > > But if KDE4.3 apps didn't have access to the KDESC4.4 systray in any
> > > way, I would consider it wrong, and something I think we should
> > > document shouldn't be done.
> >
> > Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of this
> > experimental-lib-stuff? As far as I understood the whole point is to
> > have this available for apps to use, but to give no warranty whatsoever
> > about how it works in the next release (which API, which behaviour etc)
>
> Agreed.
>
> The whole point of having an experimental API and experimental D-Bus
> protocol is to test something new. If we were going to maintain it, we
> wouldn't call it experimental.

 Ok. I've added a short paragraph to the page making it more explicit that not 
just the API itself is experimental.

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