On Saturday 21 January 2012, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Kevin Ottens wrote: > > On Saturday 21 January 2012 16:17:38 Stephen Kelly wrote: > >> Kevin Ottens wrote: > >> > There's three main reasons for this rhythm: > >> > * Qt 5.0 feature freeze is upon us now; > >> > * CMake 2.8.8 will be released in April; > >> > * it'd be nice to release KDE Frameworks 5.0 at Akademy[*]. > >> > >> You mean 'some of the frameworks'? They won't all be done by then. More > >> stuff will need to get into Qt before that's possible. > > > > Yeah, I know a couple of them will need some merging scheduled for Qt 5.1 > > already (like equivalent to KSaveFile for instance). But if I reintroduce > > the few words I forgot to type which were "a technology preview of" I > > think it's doable. It means it'd build against "qt master" likely > > earmarked to become 5.1[*]. > > Honestly I don't see a point in aiming so early. It makes mistakes and 'I > thought it would behave like ABC' more risky and costly. I know you're > 'only' talking about technology preview, but once a technology preview is > out, some people will say things like 'We shouldn't change things > significantly now that the technology preview is out' and there will be > long threads on some mailing list somewhere.
I agree. Also, we have already experiences with "technical preview" releases... ;-) Alex
