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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What to do after 2.2?
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-13 14:25:00
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On Friday 13 July 2001 15:51, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:47:10PM +0200, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > 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.
>
> No, 2.9 would be a port to Qt3 without any changes of our own. 3.0 would be
> a release with the necessarily changes. The idea here is to first port,
> then change opposed to doing both at the same time. If the port happens to
> be a matter of days, all the better.
>
> > 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. :-)

Binary compatibility would be broken by such a step anyway, and is actually 
rather unimportant. Source compatibility is what matters, and I'm pretty 
confident we can do such a move without breaking source compatibility in more 
than one or two places.

Lars

>
> Rob

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