On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Patrick Spendrin <ps...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > after some months of break, I am back online again working on KDE on > Windows though with a lot less time.
Good to know you're back :). > There are two things that are probably most interesting in the coming > months: > 1) a KDE 4.6 binary release > 2) the emerge git transition > > The main question is of course in what order these should be done: > doing the release first, and switching to git later or switching to git > first and doing the release shortly after it. > > I personally prefer to have the git transition first, and do the release > after that, since we can benefit from the things we can change with this > transition: > > my plan looks like this: > - do a last emerge branch/tagging so that people can use that version if > they want > - do the transition > - move/remove stuff in emerge: > remove kde-4.X categories and only keep kde category > > rationals: > we normally don't use the splitting between the kde-4.X release > categories and the kde category. this also doesn't work because e.g. > win32libs do change in between and we can't guarantee for binary > compatibility of our 3rdparty projects anyway (examples that occurred > until now are jpeg6/7/8, png 1.2vs.1.4 and of course Qt). So instead I > want to have one branch per release, e.g. one 4.6 branch which will be > split away from the master branch somewhen around the time the branches > are set up for KDE itself. > Since Tortoisegit is not half as good as Tortoisesvn I also want to > promote a different way to setup emerge: Beginning with a zip package > (which might include python & emerge (& git)) you can install emerge > somewhere, and start emerge with 'emerge --update emerge' which would > then update itself to the most recent version. Ralf did some work on > that already (until now only in the svn version, but I am sure we can > easily adapt that to git) so I don't think this becomes a big problem. > > So what do you think? The plan seems OK if the team has the resources to pull it off before 4.7 is released. Otherwise 4.6 could be skipped altogether. Regards, Cristian > regards, > Patrick who became father of a qt boy in february... > _______________________________________________ > Kde-windows mailing list > Kde-windows@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows > _______________________________________________ Kde-windows mailing list Kde-windows@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-windows