Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 05:34:28 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE tree? Message-ID: <00040105424200.23586@nomad.dataplex.net> In-Reply-To: <20000401062538.B98577@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <200003312226.OAA34850@tao.thought.org> <00040103411800.07622@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000401062538.B98577@argon.blackdawn.com>
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On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Will Andrews wrote: > On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 03:28:35AM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > Sorry, I don't see what this has to do with my comment. KDE2 is a different > > product. IHMO, it should never occupy the same namespace (in our source tree) > > as KDE1. Eventually, KDE1 will disappear just as FreeBSD 2.x is doing. > > But in the interim, they each need their own namespace. And that namespace > > should not be one that is shared in time. > > Yes, they do occupy the same namespace. Hard as it is to believe, I've seen > a program go from being written with Qt 1.45 to Qt 2.0. Sometimes they're > written with KDE 1.x and Qt 2.0, sometimes KDE 1.x and Qt 1.45, sometimes > KDE 2.x and Qt 2.0. Imura-san also has a few Qt/KDE programs that can only > use his i18n'd Qt 1.45 libraries. > > Let me know when they perfect their release engineering and I will be happy > to consider them separate products. > > In the meantime, I still have to support 2 versions of Qt and 2 versions of > KDE (well, once they release KDE2), so that users will be able to use the > widest range of Qt/KDE software. I don't think that you understand what I am saying at all. KDE1 and KDE2 are two distinct "products" that we (FreeBSD) need to support at the same time. I am talking about the FreeBSD namespace, not whatever namespace these products use. IOW, there is a "kde1" AND a "kde2" in our namespace and not simply a "kde". As we work with various ports which USE these, we need to say that the port requires kde1-libs or kde2-libs and not simply kde-libs. Similarly, there is a QT-1.?, Qt-2.0 AND Qt-2.1 (and others) which are all distinct. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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