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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    [4.7 Beta1 blocker] plasma depending on kdelibs/experimental
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-05-21 9:08:53
Message-ID: 201105211108.53769.mueller () kde ! org
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Hi, 

in the past we used to have the rule that kdelibs provides a stable ABI 
backward compatible API. When the need for experimental, not yet mature 
libraries came up, we introduced kdelibs/experimental. 

Back then, the rule was that no stable public API must depend on experimental, 
ABI-unsafe libraries. 

I now discover this to be broken in master: 

plasma/widgets/declarativewidget.cpp requires kdeclarative.h which comes from 
libkdedeclarative in kdelibs/experimental

Is the previous rule no longer valid? otherwise, how to deal with this 
situation? Move plasma to experimental? remove the dependency again?

Thanks,
Dirk
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