KDE version in Lenny: KDE 3.5.9 vs KDE 4.1

[Ana Guerrero]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 07:30:24PM +0100, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> KDE3 it's upstream 'dead' and KDE4 it's the current KDE. 
> Is it possible to let each user choose which KDE he/she wants to use?
>

No, we ship either KDE 3 or KDE 4. KDE 3 is not fully dead, there is security
support. KDE 4.0 does not fully replace all the functionality of KDE 3.5.9 and
KDE 4.1 has not been released yet and it does not look like it will be ready on
time.


> I mean, anything prevents to release KDE 3.x and KDE 4.x ?
>

You have 2 versions of every program: 2 konqueror, 2 kopete, etc. Some
distributions have handled install both version using non-standard paths, that
is not allowed in Debian and usually revert the changes made too much
problems.
So it was never considered.

Ana