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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What's the deal with kdedb?
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-16 17:58:18
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On Wednesday 16 May 2001 04:48, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 16:33, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 May 2001 13:45, Matthias Elter wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:16:27AM -0400, Alessandro Praduroux wrote:
> > > > and wait for QT3/KDE3.
> > >
> > > Just for the record, the plan is to port KDE 2.x to Qt3. There wont be
> > > a KDE 3.0 for at least another year. Maintaining the 2.x platform is
> > > critical for KDE now. So we might have a stable KDE 2.X based on Qt3 in
> > > fall 2001.
> > >
> > > Matthias
> >
> > According to our versioning-scheme a KDE 2.x based on QT3 _IS_
> > KDE3 because shifts of the major version number happen as soon
> > as KDE becomes binary-incompatible.
>
> We didn't switch to "KDE 3" when openssl made a binary incompatible
> release. And still, this broke BC for KDE users....

So you are saying that it is not possible to provide a binary compatible 
platform because there is always one clueless group of developers who fucks 
up and that we shouldn't even try because of that?

Cheers,
Waldo
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