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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: minimum kdelibs version
From:       Jaroslaw S <kexipl () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-25 16:27:28
Message-ID: 56a746381001250827s2273a82do2f71f8706fdcc04b () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/1/25 Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org>:
> On Monday 25. January 2010 16.22.57 Jaroslaw S wrote:
>> Oh I didn't say it's shipped. I said "if we want to be widely deployed
>> on netbooks by OEMs, longer time support would be a nice feature".
>> So what kdelibs version do you predict as long-term (year or more) minimum?
>
> Yeah, longer time support is good, for sure. I'd love to get some help on
> kword if we want to reach 2.2 as an end-user ready state, though. But thats
> another issue altogether :)
>
> OEMs have made clear in the past they would rather not have any KDE than have
> one that is not feature complete. Ubuntu is a good example of that.
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
>  "for 8.04 LTS, Kubuntu chose to move to KDE 4.0 and didn't issue an LTS
>  release. In 10.04, the Netbook Edition will not be an LTS."
>
> This will definitely not be 4.2, if only for quality reasons.
> So, to answer your question; I expect kde 4.3 or even 4.4 (depends on when
> those distros start their long term cycle).
>
> KDE4.4 is the most likely, in my mind. It looks to be the first that is mature
> enough for something else than enthusiasts, from what I hear. But lets not
> look at that yet as we are now just asking for 4.3 in koffice :)
>
> Do you still have an objection against upping the requirements koffice wide?

I don't -- assuming that we add a note about 1. recommended and 2.
technically possible to use minimal version of kdelibs in
README.PACKAGERS
(with special info about Krita).

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
 Kexi & KOffice (http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org)
 KDE Libraries for MS Windows (http://windows.kde.org)
 http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
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