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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: CVS "hard frozen" for the 2.1 release
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-02-15 23:09:09
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On Thursday 15 February 2001 14:23, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Thursday 15 February 2001 22:59, David Faure wrote:
> > Hmm, that's bad. Well, you can be the only judge then, since you know the
> > code. It's up to you to decide between taking a risk before 2.1, or
> > releasing with a known compilation problem (and maybe a patch available
> > for those who need it). That's probably the safest solution, putting the
> > patch on http://www.kde.org/compilationfaq.html for Solaris users, isn't
> > it ?
>
> Since there are no precompiled packages for Solaris AFAIK there is another
> week before we officially announce 2.1. Isn't it possible to use this week
> just for this change? 

The problem is that such a change is too risky because it might break things 
for other platforms. If the change would only affect Solaris users (e.g. is 
between #ifdef __solaris__ / #endif) than it wouldn't be a problem to include 
it.

Cheers,
Waldo
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