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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What to do after 2.2?
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-13 14:17:33
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On Friday 13 July 2001 09:51, Rob Kaper wrote:

> > 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?
>
> I never implied we should break BC whereever possible. :-)

   Personally I'll be pretty pissed off if I have to recompile all my apps 
barely a year after 2.0 came out.  Yeah the new features are nice and all, 
but breaking applications is very unprofessional.

-- 

George Staikos

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