kde4 status?

[Josh Boyer]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:01:29 +0200
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:

> Michel Salim wrote:
> > On 18/08/07, Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Today I've started working on packaging a kde game, ksirk.
> >> Upstream has a beta version available which uses kde4, I thought
> >> that would be a good place to start. However much to my suprise, I
> >> couldn't find any kde4 packages in rawhide.
> >>
> >> So whats the statud on this, eta? Anything I can do to help? Any
> >> place where I can download test packages (even if those are to
> >> rough for rawhide)?
> >>
> > I'm not sure KDE4 is slated for inclusion for F8; their release
> > schedule is too closed to that of F8 to accomodate any slippage.
> > 
> > I believe there are some KDE4 packages being worked on, that can be
> > parallel-installable, but I don't think KDE4-based packages can be
> > accepted into the distribution unless KDE4 itself is.
> > 
> 
> Grumbel, now that was a very usefull answer (NOT) can people please
> refrain from answering questions about things which they have no clue
> about, and instead go RTFM? (kde4 is planned for F-8 inclusion), see:

Actually, Michael does have a clue.

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/FeatureList

Yes, that is out of date.

> and notice how KDE4 is on the approved features list, and:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureKDE4

As is this.

KDE4 will not be in F8.  The KDE team is working on a parallel
installable packages for rawhide.  This was discussed in a FESCo
meeting quite a while ago.

josh