From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 13 13:45:21 2001
From: Torsten Rahn <tackat () suse ! de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:45:21 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: What to do after 2.2?
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99503192116762

Rob Kaper wrote:
> This looks like breaking binary compatiblity twice and technically it will
> be, on the other hand 2.9 should by no means be considered as official
> release.

Correct me if I'm wrong but last time I talked to core-developers the
idea was that for KDE 3.0 we break BC only where really necessary. So
essentially what you consider to be the 2.9-release would basically be
the 3.0-release. 
After all one of the reasons why there are so many GTK-applications is
that they had a more or less stable API for a long time. If we make KDE
3.0 anything beyond something that is slightly more than a recompile
then you shouldn't expect that the number of KDE-applications will grow
significantly over the next 9-12 months which would really bad in effect
and which would push us quite a bit back.
Who wants to develop for a platform if it changes every few months?

Greetings,
Tackat