2011/11/10 Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> > On Wednesday, November 9, 2011 23:44:21 Andrea Diamantini wrote: > > 4.x is where I'm living/fighting/coding/writing now. > > for apps and workspaces, that is perfect. we don't want to disrupt app and > workspace development while we get kdelibs prepped for the next major > release. > > > I'm sorry to say, in my mind next version of kdelibs is 4.8. > > your mind is wrong. whatever the version number might end up saying > (probably > to keep packagers and users from confusion) it'll be the 4.7 code base with > continued bug fixes applied :) > > > And it will be based on the upcoming (not yet released) Qt 4.8. > > sure; but this is a non-relevant detail. > > > Thinking about "frameworks" without having yet a decent idea of what > will be > > Qt5 is impossible for me. > > actually, Qt5 is irrelevant to most of the work that needs to be done in > frameworks. we can, and are, working against Qt4 right now. most of the > work > is modularization and modernization (while preserving source compatibility) >
Ok, stupid question then. Why aren't we releasing this as kdelibs 4.8? > > we are merging some things upstream into Qt5, and the things that are > merged > upstream are going into a small temporary library call libinqt (lib in qt > ;). > when Qt5 arrives, that library will go away and we will be able to move to > basing frameworks on Qt5. between now and then there is a lot of work on > the > modularization and modernization work. > > for instance, Sune's proposal to improve KNotification requires absolutely > nothing from Qt5. having that done before Qt5 arrives would actually be a > bonus as we wouldn't have to juggle too many different kinds of changes at > once. > > i do recognize that there is not enough documented plans and direction for > frameworks 5. there are a handful of wiki pages but they do not contain > enough > information; too much of that still resides in the heads of just a few > people. > > to help address that, i'm hosting an irc meeting in a couple weeks with > people > currently working on frameworks 5 with the aim of pulling together clearly > documented goals, tasks and milestones. the date has not been fixed yet, > once > it is i will announce it here as well so interested parties can join. > > i hope that with further documentation and clairty of goals that others > will > be able to see how they can get involved with frameworks and why now is a > good > time to do so. > > I hope that, too :) > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > humru othro a kohnu se > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks >