On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote:

> El Dijous, 30 de maig de 2013, a les 03:53:00, Vishesh Handa va escriure:
> > Hey Albert
> >
> > Soprano usually has an exception to this rule, just like Akonadi.
> Can/Does
> > this exception extend to the Shared Desktop Ontologies as well?
>
> Sincerely, i'd like to have less exceptions not more, in my opinion we
> shouldn't give soprano nor akonadi that exception either, it just goes to
> increase the false impresion that those are "kdelibs-only software".
>
> Besides as a regular user having our latest releases depend on bleeding
> edge
> soprano, akonadi and SDO is a pain, I don't want to be forced to build a
> new
> soprano to build kdelibs or nepomuk.
>
> That coupling we have in that area worries me a bit, are APIs and/or
> behaviour
> changing that much in those libraries that we absolutely need to use a
> library
> released the same day to make sure it works?
>

Well, for SDO, the same day is not required, but I need to fix some more
bugs and then release a new version.

We have an Okular that builds against poppler 0.12 and up, that's 6 major
> versions, obviously you don't get all the new features if you use an old
> poppler, but stuff still works.
>

If it makes you feel any better, I will most probably be dropping Soprano
for frameworks5. So, that'll be only less dependency.

I might even be able to drop the whole redland dependency in Nepomuk soon.


> Of course this is a rant, your question can only be answer with a "sure,
> why
> not", since you obviously realized that you totally need something that's
> not
> there on old SDO and you don't have a release yet.
>

Thanks


>
> Cheers.
>   Albert
>
> >
> > On 25 May 2013 18:20, "Albert Astals Cid" <aa...@kde.org> wrote:
> > > Dependency freeze for 4.11 releases is in 4 days (May 29th), please be
> > > sure you update all the needed dependencies before that date.
> > >
> > > Notorious dependencies we might want to discuss:
> > >  * kde-runtime depends on kdelibs 4.10.0 (4.9.95)
> > >  * kde-baseapps depends on kdelibs 4.10.2
> > >  * kde-workspace depends on kdelibs 4.9.4
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >   Albert
> > >
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