On 6/8/06, Thomas Beinicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Things don't happen this way. See Mandriva, who packed KDE 3.4.2 when 3.5 was already there, or Kubuntu, who released 3.5.2 when 3.5.3 was already there.
If we release Kopete out of the official KDE we incurr in the risk of Kopete being released in a version even older than current KDE (it makes me remember Rosegarden, currently in version 1.2.3 but most distros ship with 1.0).
The only way I believe we'll see an updated Kopete in a distro is waiting for updated unnoficial packages.
The same applies to every software under the sun, including Kopete.
I'd love to have an answer to this question, but I don't have one. It depends on so may external factors beyond our capacity to intervene.
Cláudio Pinheiro
Although I am no Kopete developer I have been been following it's progress for
quite some time and I am actively using it for the same time now so this is a
users perspective.
When I first tried it it was pretty unusable but now it really is my favorite
IM but I am using SVN for a looong time already.
The point is that if I suggest Kopete to other people that I have converted to
Linux they complain that their Kopete is "different".
Because most of the features I love in Kopete are simply not in other
distributions because I won't tell a newbie to use Gentoo for sure, they just
want to use their system.
So why we can't just kick out Kopete out of the offical KDE release? All the
distros will pack it anyway because they know that Kopete is THE messenger
for KDE.
Things don't happen this way. See Mandriva, who packed KDE 3.4.2 when 3.5 was already there, or Kubuntu, who released 3.5.2 when 3.5.3 was already there.
If we release Kopete out of the official KDE we incurr in the risk of Kopete being released in a version even older than current KDE (it makes me remember Rosegarden, currently in version 1.2.3 but most distros ship with 1.0).
Would it be so difficult to point all the major distros to the newer branch
and to include this one as the standard kopete? I guess some distros are
doing that already because the 0.12 branch is more stable and has more
features. I think the advantage of open source is that it's quite dynamic.
The only way I believe we'll see an updated Kopete in a distro is waiting for updated unnoficial packages.
It's still a long time until KDE4 is ready AND when it's ready it doesn't mean
it will be instantly used by all the distros.
The same applies to every software under the sun, including Kopete.
I'd love to have an answer to this question, but I don't have one. It depends on so may external factors beyond our capacity to intervene.
Cláudio Pinheiro
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