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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Odd requirement for KDE data
From:       Albert Chin <kde-devel () mlists ! thewrittenword ! com>
Date:       2006-01-24 16:25:19
Message-ID: 20060124162518.GA98951 () mail1 ! thewrittenword ! com
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:01:23PM +0100, Szombathelyi_GyXrgy wrote:
> I just curious you found so many regressions in 3.5.1 that it cannot 
> replace 3.4.3?

No. However, when we decided on 3.4.3, only 3.5.0 was out. We don't
build .0 releases of either KDE or GNOME. Both take us over a _week_
to build on the various non-Linux platforms we support. So, we decided
on 3.4.3. We'll switch to 3.5.x when x > 2.

> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 19:08, Albert Chin wrote:
> > 
> >> "share/kde343/" or "share/kde351/". This causes a problem though in
> >> that the same share directory hierarchy is mirrored under
> >> ~/.kde/share. Because of the source code change, we'd have
> >> ~/.kde/share/kde343 and ~/.kde/share/kde351. We'd like to have a
> >> KDE-specific share directory in /opt/share/kde# for versions of KDE
> >> installed to /opt/kde# but a generic share directory in ~/.kde for
> >> users.
> > 
> > There is no generic share under ~/.kde. if you think about it - its all user 
> > specific, and it shouldn't be versioned with the KDE version because the user 
> > wants to keep his settings while upgrading KDE. 
> > 
> > Why do you try so hard to break all possible ugprade paths?
> > 
> > 
> 
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