From kde-devel Wed Aug 13 15:50:57 2014 From: Frank Reininghaus Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:50:57 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: KDE applications December 2014 release Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=140794512012352 Hello everyone, after KDE SC 4.14, the next release of the KDE applications that are part of the KDE SC is planned for December. It will contain not only applications that are still based on Qt4+kdelibs 4.x, but also applications that have the first stable release of their Qt5+KF5 ports [1]. All application developers/maintainers can decide if they want to release another Qt4+kdelibs 4.x-based version, or if they want to release their first Qt5+KF5-based version. I think it would be helpful if there was a central site where information about the choices that developers have taken so far is collected, i.e., a place where everyone can look up quickly if application XYZ will have a Qt4-based or a Qt5-based release, or if it is still in the "not decided yet" state. One of the reasons why I consider such a thing useful is that quite a few applications have runtime dependencies that are provided other applications. For example, * Many applications have an embedded terminal, which is provided by the Konsole KPart. If Konsole does not release a Qt5-based version in December, then any application which does will not have an embedded terminal any more. * All of Konqueror's functionality is provided by KParts that are provided by libraries and applications and that are loaded at runtime. If some of these KParts will not have a Qt5-based release, then the functionality of a Qt5-based Konqueror would be severely limited. There are probably many more (and less obvious) examples of such run-time dependencies. Moreover, an overview of the release plans of the applications that are part of the KDE SC might also be useful for other reasons. If you are a maintainer/core developer of such an application, I would appreciate it if you could put it into the appropriate section of https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Application-release-status-December-2014 and add any further interesting information that you might have. For an earlier discussion about this issue, see [2]. Thanks and best regards, Frank [1] See, e.g., http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2014-July/007932.html [2] http://lists.kde.org/?t=140594216200002&r=1&w=2 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<