A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Kevin Kofler vàreu escriure: > Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Kevin Kofler vàreu escriure: > >> 1. This puts kdelibs 4 into maintenance mode even before KDE > >> Frameworks 5 is anywhere near a release, let alone versions of the > >> workspace and applications actually using it. As a result, we will > >> fail to deliver new features to our end users for months if not > >> years. And no, kdelibs features do not only target developers: Some > >> application or workspace features require kdelibs changes, or in some > >> cases, even consist of kdelibs changes only, e.g. my Plasma > >> PackageKit integration work is entirely in kdelibs (libplasma). > > > > Please describe the features you need. > > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102175/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102291/ > https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102350/ > > The first one was merged into master after 4.7 branched and before it got > frozen and is now in limbo there, the other 2 are stuck in ReviewBoard.
I'm not a plasma expert, but I'm almost sure you could argue these are bug fixes :D And if you can not i don't think anyone is going to disagree on putting that on 4.7 since it's seems to be a fairly small amount of code. Albert > > > What you are describing is actually fine means that "old unmaintained" > > libraries are still useful, so I do not see that it helps to prove your > > point. > > It shows that they are useful, but that distributions have to patch them > because upstream does not take fixes nor required system integration > features anymore, which is not very helpful. > > Kevin Kofler
