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Subject: Re: KDE Dev Platform Status
From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-11-25 18:11:42
Message-ID: 200711251911.43296.sebas () kde ! org
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On Sunday 25 November 2007 10:03:03 Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Sonntag 25 November 2007 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > A Diumenge 25 Novembre 2007, Allen Winter va escriure:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > Are we willing to permit BIC changes to the Dev Platform?
> >
> > The question you need to make yourself is: "Did we release the 4.0.0 for
> > the Dev Platform?", techbase says yes, so the answer to that question is
> > no BIC changes until 5.0.0
> >
> > Obviously you can ignore that we said to have released 4.0.0 for the Dev
> > Platform and call it "that was our 4.0.0 joke platform" and then allow
> > BIC changes.
>
> That much about the theory. In practise no-one will develop KDE4
> applications at this point and is not willing to touch them anymore, so BIC
> should not matter at all.
>
> As long as KDE4 isn't installed on people's machines, ISVs (3rd party
> developers) won't ship binaries linked against it to people, so people
> won't care if updating KDE4 breaks apps that do not exist.
>
> SIC are a big problem though. But for BC, you have to keep in mind what
> you're doing it for, not just follow the rules because they've always been
> followed.
We should tap into coolo's experience here. My proposal would be to have one
last BIC (but SC) monday. That should get us the critical stuff/fallout, and
not break things. I hope.
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sebas
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