From kde-core-devel Wed Nov 09 19:05:33 2011 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:05:33 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: New Feature for kdelibs (Was: The case for a kdelibs 4.8) Message-Id: <3680300.Zy9pzULMLY () freedom> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=132086561205591 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--nextPart1818869.8LCZzeGW83" --nextPart1818869.8LCZzeGW83 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 17:53:58 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > But it will be not before Qt 5.0. the question is "how long after", and the best answer is "as little delay as possible". Qt 5.0 is scheduled for some time in 2012. > Personally, I don't have a problem if not too many people work on the personally, i do. there is lots of work to be done that doesn't require waiting on the build system changes. if we serialize on "build system" -> "modularize" -> "modernize where needed" we'll be lucky to have something out for 2014, forget 2012. to remind us of history: remember how some figured we might just skip doing a 3.4 release? then we recanted (and that time for good reasons, as Qt4 was a rocky path) and did a 3.4 .. and then 3.5 .. and then lots of 3.5.x releases with fewer good reasons to do so, slowing down development of the 4.x series. i know i sound like a broken record here: we should learn from the past rather than repeat it. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks --nextPart1818869.8LCZzeGW83 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk66zv4ACgkQ1rcusafx20MLoACfa/Teu2Ww/R28LrMg+INiiv7y pwsAoJG8kKwVEf3UiaQntDGbh6yM3J+/ =+Ygs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1818869.8LCZzeGW83--