On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:48 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2011 23:05:52 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am requesting that a moratorium on dependency bumps for dependencies >> which are "hard to build" be enacted. This would affect system wide >> components which rely on root access and are heavily integrated into >> the system. This would not affect things such as UPower or the like - >> which aren't heavily integrated - but only heavily integrated things >> such as the kernel, X and ALSA. > For what modules do you want such a moratorium? Given that you mailed > core-devel I > assume the Plattform. There I am very sure that we do not need to expect an > X12 before KDE > 4.8 is released ;-) But given that you mention X I rather think you want to > have a moratorium > for the Workspaces. In that case please take the request to Plasma devel so > that we can > discuss raised requirements on a per-component base. A general "moratorium" > just looks like > a wonderful way to do bike-shedding.
The Moratorium would extend to all components of the KDE SC distribution. Hence kde-core-devel. >> >> Over the past few months it has become increasingly hard to use a >> distribution which isn't even 1 year old to build KDE trunk. Custom >> patches, disabled features and compilation failures are fairly common, >> and represent an extreme barrier to contribution. This would only >> affect releases after KDE 4.7. > Personal opinion: I think it is impossible to want to run the latest software > around an old stack. > The overall FOSS world is rolling release with everything depending on > everything. I cannot > see why you want to change that with a moratorium. Other than the very recent incompatibility in the "hard to build" dependencies, a distribution which is less than 1 year old is fine to build KDE. Ocassionally it may be needed to build something such as Clucene from source (which is ok - clucene is not hard to build). The components affected by the Moratorium - namely the Kernel, X and ALSA interfaces are not easy to build. For those of us on non-rolling release distributions the only way to usually get newer versions is a complete system upgrade. That assumes that the latest release has that - more conservative releases might not. > > Cheers > Martin Regards, Ben
