Re: KDE 4.10 or Kde 4.A

On Sunday 15 August 2010 14:18:07 Markus Slopianka wrote:
> Some proposed features regarding platform profiles require breaks in binary
> compatibility.  And once WebKit is fully integrated into the Platform
> (spell check in text input fields comes to mind), KHTML could potentially
> also be moved from kdelibs to a place that doesn't guaranty compatibility
> (kdebase/libs or so), remove kde3support classes, etc.
> 
> Not saying that there should be a Platform 5 release soon (kde-promo isn't
> the place for  that discussion anyway), but the potential is there to do
> it in the foreseeable future no matter what Nokia does with Qt 4, Qt 5,...

Well, in part it *does* matter. If Nokia releases Qt 5.0, breaking binary 
compatibility, and we want to use its new features, we'll have to break BC as 
well, and that would -- in the current world order -- warrant a major version 
number update, i.e. to Plasma 5.x etc.
-- 
sebas

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