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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: The Road Ahead
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-25 21:58:41
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On Wednesday 25 July 2001 21:59, Waldo Bastian wrote:
>
> > In other words: Do we want the changes in KDE 3.0 to be solely
> > porting changes, bugfixes and minor feature additions, or do we
> > want KDE 3.0 to also include new major features (which could
> > possibly delay the 3.0 release, like we experienced with 2.2) ?
>
> I don't think we should _aim_ for any major new features, but I don't
> think we should prevent anything either. We will for sure have delays
> with 3.0, just like we have with 2.2. Please note that the 2.2 delays
> are hardly due to "major new features" but much more due to "basic
> stuff not working".

What's about binary compatibilty? KDE 3.0 will break it, but after that 
the libs should again stay binary compatible for a long time, is this 
correct? Since major new features tend to break binary compatibility, 
shouldn't we aim for putting as much new features as possible into KDE 
3.0?

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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