On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Stefan Teleman wrote: > KDE4 is the future (obviously). So, i think we should concentrate on KDE4. > Back in May, when we had our big KDE Solaris IRC meeting (#kde-solaris), > we decided to focus on KDE4. > > I would be much more interested in focusing on Nevada and/or OpenSolaris, > for no other reasons than:
This makes complete sense, I'm not sure how to do it any other way. > - they deliver more components (many of which are KDE dependencies) > - it's easier to integrate new components in Nevada/OpenSolaris than in > Solaris > - the general idea about the relationship between Solaris and > Nevada/OpenSolaris > seems to be: New Things(TM) appear in Nevada/OpenSolaris first, then they may > (or may not) appear in Solaris. > > So, i agree with you in principle: Nevada/OpenSolaris is our focus. I think it has to be. > Ultimately it's a matter of "who is the indended audience". > > If the intended audience is made of hackers/developers who do not mind > updating > their operating system every 3 months, and don't care about things > being broken once > in a while, then we don't have to worry about Official Solaris > Releases. But i'm not sure > this is a wise approach. I'm not sure exactly, and don't think it makes sense to ponder over it. We need to develop on nevada, first and foremost, and after that any extra is gravy, IMO. > Now about KDE3: i am planning a KDE3 (3.5.8) binary release. Do you think that will take a long time? Would it be better to focus on KDE4? -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
