From kde-devel Fri May 25 05:47:54 2001 From: Greg Turpin Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 05:47:54 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: QT 3.0 and future KDR Road Map X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99076972425565 On Thursday 24 May 2001 8:55 pm, Jeff brubaker wrote: > 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. > Hmmmm.....what about NT/2000 vs. the whole 95/98 thing? Can't run all of those binaries on each other's. Just look at the problems XP is having with compatability. > Is long term binary compatibility not a major goal for kde? Yeah, we'll be binary compatible with Windows in no time. > > 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, > > > > > > > > >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > > >> unsubscribe << > >> > >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > >> unsubscribe << -- ============================================= Greg Turpin gregturp@home.com This space available for advertisement. ============================================= >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<