Am Friday 21 November 2008 18:33:26 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Torsten Rahn wrote: > > It's important to provide and ship the Decibel-KDE libs support soon. You > > can't always assume that people will always use trunk to develop with. > > I'd claim that most people who develop against KDE 4 these days try to > > develop against the stable version of KDE unless there is a really > > important API enhancement in trunk that they need to depend on (and that > > this has always been the case. the majority of application developers do > not use trunk, and even if they do they realize many of their users don't > and so avoid using library features that are only in trunk. > > > > Which apps are using/want to use Decibel? > > > > Except for Kopete and other IM messaging clients there are possible other > > applications which could use Decibel: ? > > this is where we ought to be aware of KDE4's likeness to KDE2 more than > KDE3. in KDE3 we had a pretty strict "Must already be used in applications" > policy, while in KDE2 it seemed a lot more technology was added "because > applications should be able to $FOO". that's because in KDE3 we had what we > needed and we wanted to avoid unending bloat for no purpose while in KDE2 > (and KDE4) we were adding tools to let us do what we wanted to able to do. > > decibel certainly falls into that category. >
This is also why I would love to have Decibel onboard now - to make people aware of it and to trigger more development based on it and to have real test cases. I am sure we will see more of that in spring 2009. However, as stated in my other email I am pure unsure I can run the whole process to get it into kdereview in time. Cheers, Eva > > as for the rest of Torsten's observations and comments, i think he's > correct across the board. -- Eva Brucherseifer Managing Director basysKom GmbH Robert-Bosch-Str. 7 | 64293 Darmstadt | Germany Tel: +49 6151 3969-961 | Fax: -736 | Mobile: +49 170 5533642 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.basyskom.de Handelsregister: Darmstadt HRB 9352 Geschaeftsfuehrung: Eva Brucherseifer _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
