Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:36:14 Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake If we rely on kdelibs-4.7 for the KDE SC 4.8 release,

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake If we rely on kdelibs-4.7 for the KDE SC 4.8 release, then all

Re: Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Allen Winter
On Monday 03 October 2011 5:04:45 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries.

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-10-03, Allen Winter win...@kde.org wrote: On Monday 03 October 2011 5:04:45 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Gräßlin wrote: If it's only for bug fixes, wouldn't it be easier to branch 4.8 from 4.7? That way only two instead of three branches have to be maintained. If we open master for 4.8 development again (even only for bugfixes), I fear we will have much discussions again about adding

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:37:51 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: Martin Gräßlin wrote: I don't want to have lengthy threads on kcd each other week were developers state how evil KDE is by not letting them include their awesome feature NOW. making fun of volunteers trying to

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thomas Lübking wrote: So what's the big difference? The big difference is that kdelibs 4 and KDE Frameworks 5 are different (sets of) libraries with incompatible APIs which will be shipped alongside each other in distributions for years. So this is not a normal freeze, it's a permanent freeze

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:41:11 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: The big difference is that kdelibs 4 and KDE Frameworks 5 are different (sets of) libraries with incompatible APIs which will be shipped alongside each other in distributions for years. So this is not a normal

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thomas Lübking wrote: In this case porting would be recompiling and relinking, so if one desperately wants a new feature in an application (since libraries don't have features for their own sake) one would just port to the KDE5 frameworks, yesno? Not if the application is using deprecated

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:11:18 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: Not if the application is using deprecated APIs, including but not limited to Qt3Support and kde3support. I always though that'd be the reason for the deprecated tag. Hey developer: get rid of this call, asap! (And