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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.1.2
From:       dep <dep () westnet ! com>
Date:       1999-08-13 4:55:07
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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mosfet wrote:
|KDE2.0 betas will be released well before next year. We don't really know yet
|when the final release will be. It's hard to tell with free software projects,
|people tend not to do anything for a few weeks in CVS then make huge commits.

true. though it's to be noted that 1.2, or 1.1.2, or whatever it ends
up being called, was to have been done by now, and it's some weeks
away. admittedly, developing for 1.X isn't as exciting as 2.0 is, but
the next version that will have the kde stamp on it is of some
importance. the 1.89 beta thing seems to have fallen pretty flat as
an idea, and i don't think anybody wants to rush to release. i really
doubt that there will be a beta that is close to a release candidate
before, say, february. and no, this isn't fud but instead an
observation based on the kind of care that time has demonstrated goes
into a kde release. 

|The CVS is shaping up nicely tho IMHO. There is some obvious loose ends that
|need to be wrapped up but both the amount of development by mostly volunteer
|programmers and the quality is real high at this point.

true, but we need to remember that the last 20 percent is what takes
80 percent of the time. which is as it should be. kde is the standard
desktop now, and it ought to be beaten to death before it is
released. the whole linux paradigm is changing. look at just the user
list. the fact that kde tops most distributions now has changed the
entire flavor of the list. this will become more rather than less.
which is fine, but it is also different.

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