On Friday 20 July 2012 00:47:35 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2012 21:18:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > anybody can think about technical problems about it that may be lurking?
> > it may mean a release of the workspace that doesn't use completely
> > frameworks, so both old kdelibs and the frameworks will have to be
> > distributed for some time, may this be a problem? (but not avoidable
> > probably)
> 
> Uh... please don't eat me :)
> 
> Do we really want to support qgv? it is a super big chunk of code we will
> have to maintain for, waht gain?
> 
> Pros:
>       - Keeping compatibility
>       - Not having to port everything to QML before switching to frameworks
>       - ... ?
> 
> Cons:
>       - Big chunk of code to maintain
>       - QGV dropped by Qt project
>       - People not porting to QML because QGV work.
>       - We will piss people off
> 
> How difficult would be to support ? would be possible to keep supporting it
> when QML2 come to play?
Very big con: users will hate us if we redo a 4.0 in Plasma and dropping QGV 
before everything is ported would mean doing a 4.0. And if we wait till 
everything is ported to QML we won't go anywhere.

So yes I think we just have to support QGV, whether we like or not.

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