On Sunday 10 May 2015 22:31:10 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > There I have Qt available, as Christian says, it feels like a system > library, our application is built on it.
Well, I wish you would see KF5 as a natural extension of Qt, therefore "a system library" too, if you want to call it that. > Now from time to time we need some additional functionality. This is the > place where frameworks libraries could come in. The easier this is, the > better. Easy would mean that if I need kfoo, and this depends on > kcoreaddons and kwidgetaddons, I need to add only those three libs to my > build, and when kfoo has a bugfix I need, I don't have to automatically > update also kcoreaddons and kwidgetaddons, but only if this is really > necessary (i.e. kfoo started using functionality from newer versions). Then just grab the bugfix, or adjust the required-version if you see it doesn't need functionality from a newer version. > This indeed requires that maintainers carefully maintain which versions of > their dependencies are needed You realize that many frameworks don't have a maintainer, right? At least 17 have officially none, others might have an inactive one. Are you volunteering, or just making demands for others to do work for you? -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Working on KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
