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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What happens after 2.1 ?
From:       Matthias Elter <elter () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2001-02-22 18:59:59
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On Thursday 22 February 2001 19:39, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2001 02:28, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > KDE 2.2 is scheduled for late summer and we would aim for a 2.3 release
> > at the end of the year. I expect most distributors to have switched to a
> > stable gcc3 by then. So perhaps a KDE 2.3 thats nothing but 2.2 ported to
> > Qt 3.0 would make sence. I think it is important to not try to do the
> > porting and the move to a new platform (KDE 3.0) in one step this time.
> > With a ported 2.3 user will profit from the Qt3 features soon while we
> > can take our time to work on a solid 3.0 release next year.
>
> Well, there is a reason that the we did the upgrade to a new major Qt
> version and a new major KDE version at the same time: both break BC and we
> really don't want to do that if we don't really have to.

Of course 2.3 will be binary incompatible to both 2.2 and 3.0. But it will 
make Qt3 features (like support for arabic and hebrew) available to users 
very soon. We can explicitely mention that the 2.3 platform is temporary and 
discourage third party developers to base apps on it.

Ciao,
Matthias

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