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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-09-30 17:10:39
Message-ID: 201109301910.39577.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Thursday 29 September 2011, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:43:34 Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> > Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to
> > me...
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at>
> 
> wrote:
> > > 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to
> > > have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. [...]
> > 
> > ...what exactly stops you from advertising kdelibs 4.7.x as version
> > 4.8? (And I mean "advertise", so only the user-visible parts, not
> > version numbers in .so files or whatever.)
> 
> Now that would add a lot of confusion.

Can the version number of kdelibs 4.7.x simply be increased to 4.8 when 4.8 is 
branched ?
It would have only bugfixes, but it seems it would make life simpler for some 
people.

Alex
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