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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 15:12:40
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On Friday 13 July 2001 16:17, George Staikos wrote:
> 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.

You'd break binary compatibility only (well almost). Since most compiling is 
anyway done by the distributors, I don't see this as a problem. Source 
compatibility would be kept to almost 100%.

Lars

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