On Friday 01 April 2005 01:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le Jeu 31 Mars 2005 19:52, Kevin Krammer a écrit : > > This way around is not guranteed, an application built agains 3.3 > > should be able to run on 3.4, of course applications using the 3.4 > > API might not work using 3.3 > > well, the quanta example shows it's not the case. > > quanta built against 3.3, running on top of 3.4 is broken. I am sorry, but in the mail I was replying to you wrote that running Quanta 3.4 with libcvsservice 3.3 didn't work, which would be ok. Quanta 3.3 not running with libcvsservice 3.4 is not I guess. However I don't know the compatability policy for loadable components outside kdelibs, mabye Ian can put that question on kde-core-devel? > so if we put kdelibs/base 3.4 in unstable, it means *every* kde apps has > to be rebuilt, because we cannot take the chance. and that would delay > the release really too much. it's not acceptable. As 3.4 is already releases it is a bit late now, but I guess that a known BIC change in kdelibs would have been a showstopper. KDE's credability as a development platform is strongly tied to its capability to ensure that through all releases of a certain major number. Cheers, Kevin
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