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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT 3.0 and future KDR Road Map
From:       Jeff brubaker <jeff () biomed ! uakron ! edu>
Date:       2001-05-25 2:55:20
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  What type of binary compatibility exists right now between kde 1.x and
kde 2.x? Is binary compatibility able to be preserved by having
compatibility libraries between these versions?

  In windows binary compatibility has only been broken once. When
Microsoft moved from Win16 to Win32, and even after there was a
compatibility layer which still enabled these applications to run. 

Is long term binary compatibility not a major goal for kde?     


 On Wed, 23 May 2001 danielmo@xena.tops.net wrote:

> Hi Christoph!
> 
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> 
> > Why don't make a 2.3 based on completly based on qt 3 ? Would be a nice test
> > for qt3 and from 2.3 to 3.0 we only must rework on kde stuff, not rework kde
> > and port it to qt3 at once.
> >
> 
> Please not! We should really keep up our stratigy:
> 
> Major version == BIC
> Minor versions == BC is kept
> 
> I know that _many_ people would like to switch to Qt3 ASAP
> (that includes me, too) but if you want to develop with Qt3,
> we should have a KDE3 branch, which I would suggest to introduce
> by the time when KDE 2.3 is out (around fall/winter 2001). Then
> we would have our common 2.3.1 fix branch and HEAD would be open
> to KDE3 development.
> 
> This solution would make it easy for the user to recognize potential
> compatiblility problems w/ his KDE version and his K Applications.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> </daniel>
> 
> 
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