From kde-core-devel  Sun Jul 15 20:46:45 2001
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 20:46:45 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: What to do after 2.2?
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On Sunday 15 July 2001 05:51 am, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Bero,
>
> I'm affraid you're missing here 1 point...
>
> The plan (if I understood it correctly) is:
>
> 2.2 - release within 2 weeks
> 2.9 - full port of KDE from QT 2.3.1 to QT 3.0 beta 2,3, whatever..
> 3.0 - which is KDE 2.9 + additional features.

[Snip]

> so moving from 2.2 -> 2.9 -> 3.0 will take at least 5-6 months based on the
> speed of kde development from 2.0 -> 2.1 -> 2.2..

Probably, yes.

> On Sunday 15 July 2001 14:27, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > > 2. You'll need to work with gcc 3.x - but as many people can tell you -
> > > the gcc 3.0 is not in great shape right now (try to compile KDE 2.2 on
> > > it and see if all the things work to see what I mean)
> >
> > This is true, but by the time we're done with 3.0 (I'd think November or
> > December), gcc 3.0.1 will have been out for at least a couple of weeks.

From my understanding gcc 3.1 (three-dot-one) will break binary compatibility 
with gcc 3.0 wrt libstc++. So having gcc 3.0.1 out is not good enough.

Cheers,
Waldo
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