Re: kde 3.* in sid will it ever happen?
Paul Cupis <paul@cupis.co.uk> writes:
> On Friday 13 September 2002 12:31, r@orcafat.com wrote:
>> Is there any light in the tunnel for kde3 being uploaded in Sid some day,
>> some year or so?
>>
>> I might be sounding a bit negative but haven't seen any progress or some
>> sort of status from the maintaineres for some while now...... Is it still
>> the transition to gcc 3.X that slows debians progress to be a useful
>> desktop system?
>
> kde3 will go into sid when the gcc3.2 transiton is over/complete. KDE is very
> much a C++-based system and there is little point uploading it using
> gcc3.1
^^^ 2.95
> and then reuploading/compiling it in X days/weeks when the gcc3.2 transition
> happens. And it cannot be uploaded now as gcc3.2 becuase the ftp-masters will
> not allow gcc3.2 libraries in until the DD's have worked out how to best deal
> with gcc3.2.
>
> I think it is just a matter of being patient, or helping the developers decide
> how the gcc3.2 transition is going to happen, so that it can happen and kde3
> can go in.
But isn't the point of the gcc transition to decide how to cleanly
migrate C++ stuff like KDE to the new ABI? If KDE3 were uploaded, it
would just end up transitioning just like every other C++ library, like
Qt.
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