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Re: stab at KDE 4.0 release?
by Erunno on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @15:09

Well, then why is KDE filed under the "Stable" section on kde.org? And why does the release annoucement for 4.0 not contain any warning about this being a relase targeted mainly at developers? Not that I intend to beat a dead horse but I'm also somewhat allergic to revisionism. And I don't count developer ramblings on obscure blogs and mailings lists. kde.org being the main internet portal for KDE is as official as it gets. And it states that 4.0 was stable although reality disagreed on a regular basis.

Anyway, 4.1 looks like it's going to be a solid release and with 4.2 most applications should be finally ported.

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Re: stab at KDE 4.0 release?
by Gilles Caulier on Wednesday 02/Apr/2008, @23:32

When i have started to port digiKam to KDE4 at July 2007, i have seen imediately several problem in core libraries. I don't speak about full desktop which for me have been unsuitable at the date.

This duing a lots of major changes in API. For big a big library as KDE, the list of regression tests is simply huge...

This is why is have never planed to try to plan digiKam 0.10.0 for the first KDE 4.0 release. It been impossible to have a stable appplication.

You have right. KDE 4.1 will be better, and certainly KDE 4.2 the first release which can be used in production.

This is not a critic. It's just the reallity. And if you look into the pass, the same situation have been seen with KDE 2.x to KDE 3.x transition.

Gilles Caulier

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Re: stab at KDE 4.0 release?
by Aaron Seigo on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @09:01

> For big a big library as KDE, the list of regression tests is simply huge...

thankfully the number of real regressions has been rather small. there are some important ones, mostly that we knew about already due to technical issues we ran into (the ssl and proxy issues are good examples o those).

> It been impossible to have a stable appplication.

it may have impossible for digikam, i can see that, but dozens of apps shipped for 4.0 and were quite stable.

that said, you're quite right about "chasing a moving API" being a major blocker for application developers. getting 4.0 out the door was a vitally important step for addressing that and increasing the stability / lowering the regression counts in the core libs. this happens best when drastic new changes aren't happening any more, more applications stress it and more users do different things with it. it's far more pleasant and realistic to develop apps against the kde4 libs at this point.

as such, i think we'll see a bloom of applications in the 4.1-4.2 timeframe, digikam being a good example of that with it's release date of september.

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