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CanonicalCanonicalPosted Sep 7, 2010 22:42 UTC (Tue) by nicooo (guest, #69134)In reply to: Canonical by dlang Parent article: LC Brazil: Consumers, experts, or admins?
My point is that most of the apps that kde uses could be released individually since there are already some that do so. Also, IMHO it's a lot harder to test when everything is released at the same time. If a program crashes after updating a single library it's easier to find the problem.
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Canonical Posted Sep 7, 2010 22:51 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
I have no problem with kde apps being shipped and updated separatly from KDE (or gnome apps separatly from GNOME)
I think this would be a very good thing.
there is desktop infrastructure, and then there are desktop applications. Most applications can be used on either desktop nowdays, and I personally think that the attitude that you must use KDE to use any KDE apps (or GNOME to use any GNOME apps) is preventing competition between the apps developed for the different desktops.
Canonical Posted Sep 9, 2010 14:46 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
Yes and no. Releasing everything together has is benefits too. You only need to test one version of every app, for instance. Having to test many versions of every app for regressions before updating a library increases the testing burden quite a bit.
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