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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] dev platform - dev framework ..?
From:       Sebastian =?utf-8?q?K=C3=BCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-11-27 10:49:25
Message-ID: 200911271149.25898.sebas () kde ! org
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On Friday 27 November 2009 06:27:45 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all ..
> 
> i've lost where the email was now, but in one of the recent long but
> excellent threads someone (apologies to whomever raised the idea for
> forgetting who it was :/) suggested "KDE Development Framework" instead of
> "KDE Development Platform"
> 
> i think we should really consider taking that name before we bake
> "Development Platform" into an actual release.
> 
> it aligns nicely with Qt Development Frameworks (as the original poster
> mentioned) and it is both a bit more hip and a bit less ambiguous than
> "Platform".
> 
> can we get consensus on this?

I prefer Framework because it sounds "less exclusive" than Platform. To me, a 
platform is the whole thing (i.e. a complete Linux stack with Qt and kdelibs), a 
framework is something you can use to gain functionality. I hope you get what I mean.

So yeah, Framework, from my POV.
-- 
sebas

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