On Thursday 02 June 2011 16:03:40 Patrick Spendrin wrote: > Hi everybody, > > after some months of break, I am back online again working on KDE on > Windows though with a lot less time. > > There are two things that are probably most interesting in the coming > months: > 1) a KDE 4.6 binary release > 2) the emerge git transition > > The main question is of course in what order these should be done: > doing the release first, and switching to git later or switching to git > first and doing the release shortly after it. > > I personally prefer to have the git transition first, and do the release > after that, since we can benefit from the things we can change with this > transition: > > my plan looks like this: > - do a last emerge branch/tagging so that people can use that version if > they want > - do the transition > - move/remove stuff in emerge: > remove kde-4.X categories and only keep kde category > > rationals: > we normally don't use the splitting between the kde-4.X release > categories and the kde category. this also doesn't work because e.g. > win32libs do change in between and we can't guarantee for binary > compatibility of our 3rdparty projects anyway (examples that occurred > until now are jpeg6/7/8, png 1.2vs.1.4 and of course Qt). So instead I > want to have one branch per release, e.g. one 4.6 branch which will be > split away from the master branch somewhen around the time the branches > are set up for KDE itself. > Since Tortoisegit is not half as good as Tortoisesvn I also want to > promote a different way to setup emerge: Beginning with a zip package > (which might include python & emerge (& git)) you can install emerge > somewhere, and start emerge with 'emerge --update emerge' which would > then update itself to the most recent version. Ralf did some work on > that already (until now only in the svn version, but I am sure we can > easily adapt that to git) so I don't think this becomes a big problem. > > So what do you think? > > regards, > Patrick who became father of a qt boy in february...
He's such a proud dad ! (with a reason ;) ) > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows -- Romain Pokrzywka | [email protected] | Senior Qt Software Engineer & Trainer Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company Tel. Sweden (HQ) +46-563-540090, USA +1-866-777-KDAB(5322) KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows
