On 13 Mar 2002 18:51:22 -0600 Brad Felmey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > While it is certainly more convenient for MandrakeSoft to > > go ahead and ship a KDE 3-less Mandrake 8.2 > > With that said, a cut-off point has to be reached _somewhere_. > > Suppose MS (MandrakeSoft <G>) waited for KDE3 gold? Let's set aside for > a moment the very real possibility that a non-backwards-compatible > full-point-upgrade is going to have some showstoppers out of the gate. > Let's just look at *EVERY* KDE app having to be ported to qt3 and > bugtested. How long would that take? "Buy a CD in the spring"?!? Which > spring, 2003? > > Then, Samba 3.x is right around the corner. So is Mozilla 1.0. So is > GNOME 2.0. So is OpenOffice 6.0. If Mandrake continually waited until > the next major release of $FOO, then they'd never have releases. I agree. I believe Laurent Montel said that kde3-rcx will not be on the contrib cd. It will be released as kde3-final for mdk 8.2 when it is final. It would be a good idea to ship cd's with kde3-final through MandrakeStore. A lot of people are indeed behind 56k lines, which is not fun for downloading kde3. -- Marcel Pol Linux 2.4.18-5mdksmp, up 2 days, 17:43
