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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT 3.0 and future KDR Road Map
From:       Greg Turpin <gregturp () home ! com>
Date:       2001-05-25 5:47:54
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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,
> >
> > </daniel>
> >
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