From kde-maemo Mon Apr 26 11:40:30 2010 From: Mike Arthur Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:40:30 +0000 To: kde-maemo Subject: Re: [Kde-maemo] [KDE/Mac] KDE Platform Profiles: BIC changes Message-Id: <29E8232D-B7FB-4623-B45B-AFA18BF22606 () mikearthur ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-maemo&m=127228437506505 On 26 Apr 2010, at 09:52, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Now I'm addressing you guys directly because we have one particular issue > which is in a grey area. We try to retain binary compatibility as much as > possible with our changes, but there's one type of change which would not > break binary compatibility on our main target but would break it on Mac, and > maybe on Windows (I'm getting mixed signals for this one). > Hence this mail, I'd need to know if we'd be fine breaking binary > compatibility on those platforms in this case? It really depends on how big > the installed base is for KDE/Mac and KDE/Windows and how strong our > commitment on those targets is so far. Do we have any official "stable" > release on it? etc. I don't think there's an official stable release on KDE/Mac. It's a bit of a weird situation because the distributions (Macports, Fink and now Homebrew) all contain patches to be able to build from trunk. I don't think it would be the end of the world for us if this broke BC. The profiles stuff has the potential to make single application deployment easier in the long-term for Mac so I think it's worth the current sacrifice. -- Cheers, Mike Arthur http://mikearthur.co.uk _______________________________________________ Kde-maemo mailing list Kde-maemo@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-maemo