Re: "KDE Platform" or "KDE Development Platform"?

On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Thursday 12 August 2010 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > This was mentioned in another thread, but there wasn't a great deal of
> > response there so here it is again with a better title.
> > 
> > Is it 'KDE Platform'  or 'KDE Development Platform'?
> 
> I think we need both terms.

agreed; the question is which to use where ....
 
> "KDE Platform" is the
 libraries and runtime dependencies, which are
> required for all KDE programs to run. So everybody using KDE software has
> the KDE platform installed. It's the common base, which gives users the
> consistency and common functionality of KDE programs, which is widely
> appreciated.

right, which means that we should probably use this term in our public
 marketing, such as the release announcements on release day.
 
> "KDE Development Platform" is what you need to develop KDE programs. So
> this also includes the libraries and runtime dependencies, but it adds the
> header files, the build system, the API documentation, etc. So it's a
> superset of the KDE Platform targeted at developers to write KDE
> applications.

<imho>
i'd go so far as to suggest that we should include tools in kdesdk
 and KDevelop under this umbrella.

this would represent a new brand encompassing our devel tools and should be
 done in concert with the kdevelop, kate, etc. teams.

our distributors can include the "KDE Development Platform" as a checkbox
 item :)
</imho>

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