From kde-devel  Mon May 28 21:53:04 2001
From: Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 21:53:04 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: QT 3.0 and future KDR Road Map
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On Monday 28 May 2001 22:45, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2001 23:41, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > Obviously I'm overlooking things here, but which? I don't think the above
> > is right, but it is the way I see it currently, so where is my mistake?
> > If there isn't, then maintaining two versions would be a piece of cake,
> > so there must be a catch ;-)
>
> Separating binaries/libs from two kde versions is easy, that's not the
> problem.
>
> The problem is, things like, talking to kdeinit, or klauncher.
> kdeinit can be linked to only one copy of the libs... so you can't get it
> to start apps from two incompat versions of KDE.
> Same for any kioslave, etc.
>
> Of course, a standalone app that doesn't use KIO and isn't started via
> kdeinit should work ok - but that's quite limiting.

Ah.... And I guess adding a kde3init and such doesn't solve anything?

Actually, that sucks... During the migration from KDE 1 to 2 I could at least 
run KDE 1 next to my 2.0 beta's (or even final). If the same isn't possible 
for KDE 3, a lot of people won't like us :-(

Martijn
 
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