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Explanation of the Development Platform
by Sebastian Kügler on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @05:28

We're not releasing a "development version" (well, we do, it's called "Beta" and "Release Candidates"). The Developer Platform however does *not* contain the desktop, nor applications. It's "merely" a set of libraries and tools that you need to *write* KDE 4 applications. Those parts are considerable further down the road than the desktop itself (no surprise there), so we want to give third party developers the opportunity to work with it while we're still polishing the desktop itself.

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Re: Explanation of the Development Platform
by Diederik van der Boor on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @05:48

I think this is a really good move! Compiling all of KDE still seams like a daunting task to me. If I can install a "SDK" to start coding directly, I'd really use that instead.

Likewise, the KDE4 packages for openSUSE made me consider to try it out now. I don't feel like compiling KDE every week again. ;-)

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Re: Explanation of the Development Platform
by LordBernhard on Friday 07/Sep/2007, @08:40

oh.. I'm really sorry for this mistake.. I haven't had enough time at work to read the whole text so I just flew over it... nonetheless it's a great decision!

I've got one last question: will there be enough documentation ready in the techbase (until the developer platform gets released) to start from scratch with KDE4 programs? atm there are wonderful categories but most of them are empty or really basic. I'm really interested in this because I'd like to write a little systemcenter for KDE and it should also have support for plasma/plasmoids and therefore I'd need good documentation of plasma/solid and some other stuff.

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