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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    KDE Development
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-06-07 12:47:36
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Stefan van den Oord wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 03 Jun 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > I guess I was reacting more to a general trend on the KDE lists that disturbs
> > me -- that we should stop developers from working on apps that are based on
> > 1.1.1 and "force" them to work on 2.0.  That is the arrogance that I referred
> > to.  We have a stable and working codebase -- we should be ENCOURAGING people
> > to base their apps on 1.1.1 right now, not discouraging them.
> 
> Hmm, I was told that the 1.1.x releases should be bug-fix-releases
> only. Apps that are not part of the standard distribution don't have
> to worry about that, I guess, but if I was told correctly than...

The KDE 1.1.x release will contain bug-fixes only. However, applications
which are released independently of the main KDE releases can do what
they want of course. It makes no sense to release applications which
depend on KDE 2.0 before KDE 2.0 has been released.

> I'm not saying that it should be discouraged, but just asking if I
> was informed correctly. BTW, this reminds me that I miss this kind of
> information on the KDE website. I'm rather new to the kde-devel
> mailing list, and I read many things I don't understand. I guess this
> information has been on kde-devel some time, but it is hard to search
> the list archive if you don't know what to look for. (For, I don't
> know what I do not know, if you know what I mean :-) Is there
> information about things like what CVS branches there are, what in
> general terms is changing in 2.0 w.r.t. 1.1.x, and about the
> intention of 1.1.x branches?

The file KDE2PORTING in kdelibs should reflect the changes between 1.1.x
and 2.0. The default CVS branch contains the code for KDE 2.0. The 1.1
branch (I don't know the name, but you can do 'cvs log <filename>' to
see the branche-names for a file) is used for bugfixes and will be
released as KDE 1.1.2 (See the announcements of Matthias).

There is a KDE-DEVEL-HOWTO which will hopefully be posted regularly to
this list which addresses most of the above. There is also the kde-
development website which is at the moment under heavy construction.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
KDE, A New Millenium, A New Desktop                      http://www.kde.org

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