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KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge softwareKDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge softwarePosted Jan 29, 2009 0:55 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software by malor Parent article: KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding-edge software
there is a repeated statement that they called it 4.0 to trick people into testing it when they knew it wasn't ready
if you read the article and the links in it, you will see that they made the release so that developers would have a stable platform to develop against (thus calling it a developers release)
they could have re-named everything from KDE 4.0 to KDE-infrastructure 4.0 and then make KDE depend on KDE-infrastructure, but however they did that split there would have been something one one side of the line that belonged on the other side.
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x.0 == feature complete, end of story Posted Jan 29, 2009 21:59 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] if you read the article and the links in it, you will see that they made the release so that developers would have a stable platform to develop against (thus calling it a developers release) Yup. And such things have a name too: KDE 3.99.0 will be fine for such a release. Or they can use MySQL approach and called it KDE 4.0-alpha (with next revisions being KDE 4.1-beta and KDE 4.2-gamma). Instead they decided to use version number which clearly says: it's finished! It's not polished, it's not yet debugged enough - it's first rough release, but it's feature complete! KDE 4.0 was quite far from being feature complete, unfortunatelly...
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