[gentoo-dev] Re: When will KDE 3.5 be marked as stable?

[Duncan]

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò posted
<200604040843.09697@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below, 
on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:42:56 +0200:

> On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:09, Philip Webb wrote:
>> KDE is now modular: is it possible to upgrade some modules, but not
>> others ? Kdelibs would need to be stable, but must everything wait for
>> stragglers ? If I have Kdelibs 3.5.2 , can I still run eg Konsole 3.5.1
>> ?
> As modular as it can be, it has to go stable in one piece.

PW:  Note that while Flameeyes' is correct from a dev perspective (it's
modular but there's a large degree of interdependence, so not stabilizing
it as a unit is asking for trouble), they /do/ "skip" certain packages in
the upgrades (within slot, 3.4 is a different slot than 3.5, but 3.5.0
thru 3.5.2, currently, are all the same 3.5 slot) -- those where there's
no new code and where the dependencies are stable enough that a recompile
against the new ones isn't required. In fact, that was given as one of the
big reasons for going modular in the first place.

>From a Genntoo user perspective, again within the same slot, once you've
upgraded arts (if you use it) and kdelibs, you can in general continue to
use a mix of old and new while you upgrade additional packages one at a
time.  I do this routinely for a few hours during the upgrade as
the rest of the new KDE is still merging.  Sometimes one or another binary
or particular function will stop working temporarily until it and all the
pieces it depends on are upgraded as well, but most stuff continues to
work well enough to continue to use. Just don't go filing bugs on anything
that breaks until the whole set is updated.

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