On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:22, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> >> I don't like being in kdeextragear because:
> >>  a - Users don't beleive it is a part of the core kde application.
>
> That's a misconception. And given the possibility of restructuring for
> KDE4, extragear may gain more importance.
>
> We'll have to see.
>
> >>  b - We don't get translation
>
> This is false. Extragear applications are translated too.
>
> >>  c - We have to take care about our own schedule.
> >>
> >> But kdeextragear is nice because
> >>  d - We can release more often.
>
> (c) and (d) are contradictory. You cannot dislike something and find it
> nice at the same time.
>
> >>  e - User can upgrade only Kopete without upgrade the whole KDE (at
> >> least kdelibs+kdenetwork)
>
> You don't have to be in extragear to do that. In fact, Kopete *should*
> create tags out of KDE/kdenetwork too.
>
> >> Also I don't think it is justified to have kopete as a "module"
>
> Nor do I. We're looking into making modules more modular, so there's no
> reason to create an entire new module for a single app, however big it
> is.
>
> >there are more than 235,000 lines of code in kopete. We have our own
> > library, application, and plugins. IMO, that's plenty of justification.
>
> Yes, kopete is probably larger than kdetoys, kdeutils and kdesdk combined,
> but it's still one single application.

and so is kdevelop. what's the difference?
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