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[Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>]

On Wednesday 24 of August 2011 10:20:42 Remko van der Vossen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:40:02PM +0200, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> > We should also rename the old kde spells to kde3 and the kde4 to plain
> > kde (later) — upstream is already dreaming about kde5, so it is best to
> > lose the version suffix for the latest branch or we'll rerun into this
> > issue each major release.
> 
> First off, let me say that I don't use KDE, or any DE for that matter as
> most of you will know. However, I'd still like to add my 2 cents.
> 
> Is it wise to rename all kde4 spells to kde? We'll only get the same
> problems upon the next KDE release. When it comes to things like KDE and
> gnome it's more like every new major version is a completely new
> project, so why not treat it as such. We could have the kde spell simply
> be a profile spell that lets the user choose between any versions we
> have available currently, like we do for instance with the ruby profile
> spell and the ruby-1.8 and ruby-1.9 spells.
Ruby is just one spell, there'd need to be a dozen profiles for kde. 
The fifth version is planned to be an incremental update, so I don't forsee a 
need to have both 4 and 5 in the tree at the same time.
And having the latest normally named means you have to rename spells only 
when 
branching off older major releases, not each new one.

LP
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