On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On 18/07/12 18:50, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Further, as others already pointed out, KUSC does contain snapshots, so it will never hold a x.y.z release and is simply not meant to be used for holding any KDE release to be used by "normal" users.
I had better say that I don't consider that you are being sacrcastic otherwise someone like Patrick Shanahan will send down a bolt of lighting on me from Mount Olympus. But, to be honest, what the heck do "KUSC does not contain snapshots" and "will never hold a x.y.z release" and "[not] holding any KDE release to be used by "normal" users" mean in plain English language? :-(
Sven
BC
You need to know something about how KDE is developed. In a simplified overview, KDE has something called "master", which is where unstable work is done. It has no real versions. Every so often, a versioned release is split off from that. Work goes into make sure that release is stable and works together. These are the x.y.z releases. Master is only close to stable for a brief time leading up the versioned releases, and even then using it is a bad idea because KDE devs usually split off the versioned releases fairly early (months before the official stable release) and cherry-pick changes from master to put into them. KDE:Unstable:SC has a roughly weekly snapshot of the work being done in master,. KDE:Release:xy has the versioned releases. To put it bluntly, we don't put the versioned releases in KDE:Unstable:SC because that is not what it is meant for. That is what the KDE:Release:xy repos are for. It is like asking "why don't we put KDE SC 4.9 rc2 in devel:languages:python", it is just the wrong repo for that. For ordinary users, you never want to use KDE:Unstable:SC. But for developers that are working on improving master, or advanced users who want to help test master, it is very useful. -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org