Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On 5/31/07, David Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:02 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
> > And as for the regular release part, don't the schedules always slip
> > anyway?
> >
>
> Pretty much always, and it goes both ways. F8 could push back a week or
> two to try to accomodate KDE, but then KDE may wind up pushing back a
> bit to finish up some last bits. Then F8 has to either go ahead and
> release sans KDE final, or wait more, and then the Gnome-ers are
> screaming "why are we waiting for KDE? I don't use it so that must mean
> that no one does!" etc etc.
>
> It sucks, but that's life.
In such a case, i suggest shipping KDE 3.x and go to KDE 4.x mid F8.
Not an option, that path leads to madness, unless kde3/kde4 suddenly become
100% parallel-installable between now and then (possible, but highly
unlikely).
-- rex