From kde-windows Mon Apr 26 09:08:40 2010 From: Carlo Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:08:40 +0000 To: kde-windows Subject: Re: KDE Platform Profiles: BIC changes Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-windows&m=127227301123226 2010/4/26 Kevin Ottens : > Hello, > > As some of you might be aware of, we're working on making different profiles > for the KDE Platform, in particular to tackle the mobile case. For the long > version with the details, the thread starts there: > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=127107095103573&w=2 > > 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). > > Said change is: Moving a class lower in the depencency chain. > > For now we found only one such case, namely KCrash could move from kdeui to > kdecore. It's a particularly interesting one as kbuildsycoca would then depend > on kdecore only, and for the mobile case some apps might not want to link on > kdeui. > > Also I wouldn't be surprised if we find more of such cases as we go. > > 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. > > Feedback is badly needed here so that we know if we can pursue this kind of > changes or not. I really don't want to break the binary compatibility on you > guys if that's not welcomed. This case would be a nice trade-off if that's > only minor annoyance as that would benefit greatly to the platform in general > (simplifying the internal dependencies). > > Regards. > -- > Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net > > KDAB - proud patron of KDE, http://www.kdab.com > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > Kde-windows@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows > > I think it shouldn't be a big deal for kde-windows since all the packages needs to be installed with our installer, afaik there is no third party that offers a binary package of their kde app, and since we tie even extragear apps to a kde release it would just be a matter of recompiling everything _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows