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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] The name of Applications 4.14 + 1
From:       Albert Astals Cid <aacid () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-07-17 19:29:07
Message-ID: 2856083.0xchehjInF () xps
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El Dijous, 17 de juliol de 2014, a les 21:10:56, Kevin Krammer va escriure:
> On Thursday, 2014-07-17, 01:19:45, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > Hi all, please let's keep future discussion in kde-promo since i think
> > this
> > is more a promo related thing than anything.
> > 
> > A while ago we decided that 4.14 will be the last KDE 4 Applications
> > release and that after that we would switch (at least for a while) to
> > application releases where applications are either kdelibs4 based or KF5
> > based (on a tarball/repository level).
> > 
> > Now we need a name for that thing.
> > 
> >  * We can't call it 4.15 since the 4.x in there for everybody means based
> >  in
> > 
> > kdelibs4.x
> > 
> >  * We can't call it 5.x since the 5.x in there will make people think all
> > 
> > apps are KF5.x based
> 
> Are these really a concern?

I think so yes.

> I would go for 5.x as a new epoch of releases.

Why is it a new epoch?

I also believe that not having a 5.x numbering scheme helps explaining the 
world that we release 3 set of diffent things.

Cheers,
  Albert

> Each application has its own dependencies, whether these are KDE libraries
> or Qt or domain specific ones, each having their own versioning scheme and
> current numbers.
> 
> Some applications even have their own version numbers, so this will only be
> the version for the bundle, no?
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin

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