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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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