On 09/01/2014 11:58 AM, Luca Beltrame wrote:
In data lunedì 1 settembre 2014 11:45:19, Anton Aylward ha scritto:
Is that in time or space?
They simply have different time-based release schedules. Frameworks have a 1 month release schedule, Plasma 5 has a 3 month release schedule. They're not necessarily sequential (although work is done to prevent overlaps).
Is this illustrated (as in time-chart) somewhere rather than words-words-words?
Plasma 5 had to release past the first version of KF5 simply because, obviously, it depended on it.
Diagram of dependencies for those of us for whom all this is not "obvious", please.
applications. Frameworks are cool; eye candy is cool, but its all those
Frameworks are not simply "cool". They are the basis for everything else, and they solve a real problem, the fact that you needed the whole kdelibs even for just one feature.
From the pov of the developers, frameworks are much more interesting
than the old, boring ho-um of making sure that applications work under the new scheme, recompiling, changing library definitions in makefiles, #include lines, etc to new ones, Frameworks involve creativity. thought. That's cool. Applications are boooooring. BTDT. Quit a job rather than spend ho-hum days checking all the old apps worked with the new release.
hundreds of other applications that let us get our work done, those of
Those will take time to get ported - and the 4.x equivalents will stay until they are.
Are they fully compatible? Has anyone - ho-hum - checked? If so, why do they need to be ported?
The "in space" might be, for example, separate repositories for each of those. I can see the logic behind such a move.
Actually applications and libs are already split over a number of repositories (Plasma 5 by itself is made up by software coming from several different repos).
Diagrams and trees PLEASE!
The big message is that KDE (the community) will no longer make "monolithic" releases, but libs, workspace ("the desktop") and applications will use different release schedules.
Sounds like its going to be confusing for a lot of people, most notably the poor end users like me. Diagrams would help immensely! -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org