On Thursday, July 12, 2012 09:30:51 PM Michael Jansen wrote: > > The one real world experience we have with this is kdepim. From my > > perspective as a packager the entire transition has been a disaster and > > created huge work for us (shortly before our KDE 4.7 based release I was > > doing almost commit by commit updates of our packages in the hopes of > > getting users something better). Additionally, there was confusion about > > what versions of kdepim/-runtime/pimlibs could be combined in the interim. > > There were third digit updates that only worked with certain KDE SC > > versions. It was a mess. > > > > In theory it may not be more work, but so far in practice it's been hugely > > so. > > So to reiterate what i think i said somewhere else. This is not going to > happen with 4.9, This is possibly going to happen with 4.10 or 5.0. > > This will happen after it is ready and we take the input here serious. > > And ready is defined by consensus on this list.
Great. I think that the discussion would go better if people wouldn't assume the knew what the impact of something on everyone else was or that if you aren't packaging KDE for a distribution you understand how easy/hard that is and how changes affect it. I look forward to the discussion. Scott K _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
