From quanta  Sat Aug 14 21:51:58 2010
From: Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:51:58 +0000
To: quanta
Subject: Re: [Quanta] Quanta 4.0 projections
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Werner Joss, 14.08.2010:
> Am Saturday 14 August 2010 14:43:27 schrieb John Culleton:
> > What would be the difficulties with taking the last 3.5 version and
> > recompiling it for KDE4 without functional changes?
>=20
> these are not only difficulties, but is just impossible.
> at least in the sense, that 'compiling for kde4' means using the kde4
> infrastructure (kdebase, kdelibs, qt4...).
> the only possibility so far for 3.5 is installing all necessary kde3/qt3
> stuff alongside the kde4 packages.
> this is how most distros still support quanta 3.5 these days.
> many of them (e.g. kubuntu) do a rather bad job with this, as essential
> components (namely kioslaves) are omitted, thus leaving quanta 3.5
> crippeled. sad, but true.

In addition to that we would end up again with an unmaintainable applicatio=
n.=20
Quanta 3 had only one developer who didn't even do any webdevelopment relat=
ed=20
stuff (Andras). With Quanta 4 we reuse lots of code from KDevelop via=20
Kdevplatform which is a huge gain but requires a bit more work.

Still I bet it's worth it in the long run.

Bye
=2D-=20
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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