> > Ok, they are not that obvious too me. Wouldn't it be possible to add > > something like maintainerManagesVersionOnItsOn=false to a file in all the > > frameworks (isn't there already a file in each frameworks for stuff like > > platforms, etc.?) and modify the release-scripts (David or anybody who > > knows these scripts) once so that these scripts check this variable. > > > > So if it's set to false and most current maintainer seem to prefer not to > > do > > version bumps on their own the release scripts would bump the version > > number and do all the stuff as they do now. If the variable was set to true > > these scripts wouldn't bump the version numbers and just use the version > > numbers as set by the maintainer? > > > > Or is this just naive thinking from my side that it's "that easy"? > > It would mean the end to the "product" frameworks we provide today. We would > no longer release "60 addon libraries to Qt", but well maybe one month 20, > the > next one 40 and every one would have a different number of frameworks > included. The versioning would be a complete mess: each framework having a > different version number, some doing bug fix releases, some don't. What would > it mean if I have KIO in 5.10 and KWindowSystem in 5.10? Is that from the > same > month or did KIO skip May and KWindowSystem the June release? Bug > investigation would become close to impossible, just imagine asking the user > to provide each of the versions of all dependencies of e.g. plasmashell. What > is the message we give to the outside concerning release process and > versioning? The best I can get from that is "we have no clue what we are > doing". And users are currently already complaining that there is no "KDE" > anymore, but that there are now three different version numbers for > frameworks, plasma and applications. If we go with each framework a different > number they have a point if they say that one cannot follow that. Hi,
as ktexteditor framework and kate maintainer, I think, too, that if we start to go that way, we will end in the version hell. ATM it is easy to track: Ok, I have a bug for KTextEditor 5.9, that means all frameworks used are at least 5.9, too. Its already hard enough to track for bugs on the application side: Ok, I have Kate from Applications 15.04 and it uses KF 5.9 ;=) That was much easier in the "I have KDE 4.1.2" times, where all things were more or less fixed in their version and one number is all you need ;=) Greetings Christoph -- ----------------------------- Dr.-Ing. Christoph Cullmann --------- AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH Email: cullm...@absint.com Science Park 1 Tel: +49-681-38360-22 66123 Saarbrücken Fax: +49-681-38360-20 GERMANY WWW: http://www.AbsInt.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführung: Dr.-Ing. Christian Ferdinand Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Saarbrücken, HRB 11234 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
