The cake, it was a lie [LWN.net]

The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 25, 2012 10:07 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: The cake, it was a lie by khim
Parent article: GStreamer 1.0 released

Distro's don't want to have to ship the older versions as it is a lot of work to keep that all packaged.

The only KDE 3 app I still run is krecord, there's no port of that - works fine. Other stuff I've tried but the KDE3 apps are so much behind in functionality these days it isn't funny :(

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The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 26, 2012 4:37 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (3 responses)

Distro's don't want to have to ship the older versions as it is a lot of work to keep that all packaged.

Yet another place where distributions are a problem not a solution.

The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 27, 2012 11:17 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link] (2 responses)

>Yet another place where distributions are a problem not a solution.

Given that this is in a discussion about KDE and that the KDE projects shipped quite a few immature technology at the start of KDE4.x enabling them by default which meant that if a user wanted a stable KDE desktop he had to find a distribution which disabled those things (or do the work himself) I cannot help but finding this sentence funny.

The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 27, 2012 13:05 UTC (Thu) by Jonno (guest, #49613) [Link] (1 responses)

>> Yet another place where distributions are a problem not a solution.
> Given that this is in a discussion about KDE and that the KDE projects shipped quite a few immature technology at the start of KDE4.x enabling them by default which meant that if a user wanted a stable KDE desktop he had to find a distribution which disabled those things (or do the work himself) I cannot help but finding this sentence funny.
Well, given that the KDE project explicitly told distributions to stay with KDE 3.5 for their stable releases and only offer KDE 4.[01] as an option for the unwary, and the problem you described resulted from distributions choosing to ignore the upstream advice, I cannot help but find your statement ignorant ;-)

The cake, it was a lie

Posted Sep 27, 2012 13:36 UTC (Thu) by renox (guest, #23785) [Link]

You assume that KDE4.[01] is the only one to have troubles, but PCLinuxOS still disabled Nepomuk much later than this..