El Dimarts, 11 de setembre de 2012, a les 10:42:09, Dawit A va escriure: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > El Dimarts, 11 de setembre de 2012, a les 09:51:22, Dawit A va escriure: > > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > It seems that the > > > > > > > > set(KDE_MIN_VERSION "4.7.97") > > > > > > Was that done intentionally or was it forgotten to be updated for the > > > KDE > > > 4.9 release ? If the former, then have we now started guaranteeing > > > > forward > > > > > compatibility too ? > > > > It was done on purpose. Why require newer kdelibs when you don't need > > them. > > Because you really don't know that you need them until you actually do ? > Like I said bug fixes and regressions sometimes require changes in kdelibs. > If we purposefully shackle ourselves to forward compatibility then such > bugs and regressions, no matter how bad, cannot be fixed until the next > major release. If that is acceptable for the sake of being forward > compatible, then that is fine. However, I really do not see the point of > it. Why would anyone want to use new version of applications with the older > version of the required libraries ?
Because person XYZ does not want to compile an unreleased kdelibs to contribute patches to dolphin? Albert
