Re: The future of KAddressBook

On Tuesday 09 March 2010, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Sunday 07 March 2010, Ingo Klöcker elucidated thus:
> > On Sunday 07 March 2010, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > > On Monday 01 March 2010, Anne Wilson elucidated thus:
> > > > For those of you concerned about the apparent loss of view of
> > > > some fields, and any other aspect regarding the status of
> > > > KAddressBook, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222678
> > > > should answer many of your questions.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for posting this. Yet more reasons for me to stick with
> > > KDE 3.5.11 on Kubuntu 9.10 for now.  See
> > > http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/ for more information.
> > 
> > You could as well go for KDE SC 4.3. OTOH, if KDE SC 3.5 serves you
> > well then there's no reason to switch. I have used 3.5 until about
> > 2 months ago. Now I'm using 4.4. So far I haven't found anything
> > in KDE SC 4 which made the switch worthwhile for me, but since for
> > me everything works as good as in 4.4 as it used to work in 3.5 I
> > will stay with 4.4. Of course, everybody else's mileage will vary.
> > 
> > I encourage everybody to stay with the version they are currently
> > using unless there are extremely compelling reasons that make a
> > switch necessary. Never change a running system!
> 
> Ideally, this would be good.  However, users often want the latest in
> other areas (like driver support) which are not back-ported to an old
> distribution, thus an upgrade of KDE is "forced" on them if they want
> their latest-and-greatest hardware to be supported.

This really depends on the distribution. Also, if you upgrade the whole 
distribution then you should be relatively safe as I expect a whole 
distribution to be tested thoroughly before it is released. In contrast, 
the KDE SC 4.4 upgrade which all major distributions offer for 
distributions that originally shipped with an older version of KDE SC 
cannot have been tested thoroughly given that those upgrades were 
offered almost immediately after the official release of KDE SC.


Regards,
Ingo

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