From kdevelop-devel Fri Nov 27 13:59:02 2009 From: Hamish Rodda Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:59:02 +0000 To: kdevelop-devel Subject: Re: KDE/kdevplatform Message-Id: <200911280059.03027.rodda () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdevelop-devel&m=125933045129168 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:20:26 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 27.11.09 11:32:13, Esben Mose Hansen wrote: > > On Friday 27 November 2009 11:06:25 Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > > > On Thursday 26 November 2009 13:54:53 David Nolden wrote: > > > > > > As I said, the plugin cannot be re-activated without re-activated the > > > public API or a major overhaul. > > > > Can't we just deprecate it? And add a notice that it will be gone by > > 4.4.1 or something? > > I'm not going to start with public API declared deprecated in the initial > release. That simply doesn't make any sense at all. > > > > > As for the freeze and such matters, that is what freeze exceptions > > > > are for. > > > > > > Its not just the exception, its also that somebody needs to do it soon > > > and fast. And I'd rather spend my time fixing up the other loose ends > > > than trying to create a hack on something under great pressure thats > > > going to be thrown away again in 6 weeks anyway. > > > > What I don't get: This worked a few weeks ago, last time I updated. > > 1052413 seems to still work, but I don't dare upgrade now. I think I am > > missing some important piece of the puzzle here: What has happened in > > those few days that requires the removal of such an important part of > > KDevelop? > > Its public API we'd have to maintain, its code that nodoby wants to work on > and it has serious design problems that cause crash-bugs when you're trying > to configure things. Its simply code thats not up to our standards (IMHO) > and thus shouldn't be part of the release. We've removed lots of plugins > already for exactly this reason. I thought the 1st release of platform wasn't going to guarantee bc with the next (ie. move from 1.0 to 2.0)? Cheers, Hamish. -- KDevelop-devel mailing list KDevelop-devel@kdevelop.org https://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/mailman/listinfo/kdevelop-devel