On Friday 06 June 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - Huge advantage with kde4 > > Active upstream development, bugfixings and general work. Kde3 is dead. > > That point is moot for thinking about inclusion in a *stable* > distribution. Noone disputes that kde4 is actually actively worked on, > while KDE3 has gone to maintenance mode - but the only thing that counts > is the quality of KDE3 and KDE4 in four to six weeks. After that, no > development effort will end up in lenny, only maintenance will be > needed.
"maintenance mode" - nah. a bit more dead than that. > This hasn't been brought up yet, but if KDE4.1 will end up as incomplete > as it looks like right now [1] I fail to see the incompleteness? Yes, there are details not working and it is different details than kde3,. You need to be more specific here. > , will the KDE team actually support it > once 4.2 is out or will they try to get people to move on to 4.2 [2]? They will of course try to get people to move on - but it will be considerable easier to backport stuff from 4.2 to 4.1 than to backport stuff from 4.2 to 3.5.9. > > I expect kde4.1 to be on time - but I actually think it is worth to delay > > lenny for if needed. > > *cough* > > >> -Some arches do not like KDE 4 > >> Let's keep this short: KDE 4 needs to be built in all the release archs, > >> and it actually does not. > > > > It is only hppa. It should be possible to get someone to fix it. > > "Should be possible" sucks for actual planning. yes. But there isn't much to do about it. No porters and no porter machine available. > Marc > > Footnotes: > [1] Meaning that myriads of details are not yet ported/finished > [2] Which is, as far as I understood, the promised land, where all KDE3 > applications have been ported to KDE4, everything is polished and > flashy features have been spread over all software - just like 4.1 > was promised to be when 4.0 came out. [a] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hppa/2008/05/msg00039.html -- Man, do you know how can I digit from the 2D button? You should install the hard disk for mounting a pointer. -- http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-talk
