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Re: [trinity-users] Difference between TDE R14.0.x series and TDE v3.5.13.x

From: "ajh-valmer" <ajh.valmer@...>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:10:43 +0100
> On 11/14/2019 03:25 PM, ajh-valmer wrote:
> > What is the difference between : 
> > TDE R14.0.x series and TDE v3.5.13.x 
> > (for the sources.list).

On Friday 15 November 2019 01:32:59 David C. Rankin wrote:
> v3.5.13 (and specifically 3.5.13-SRU) were the last versions of KDE 3.5.10
> updated to work on top of TQT-Interface before the mass renaming and
> rebranding efforts took place in late 2012-2013 timeframe.
> (Darrel, I, Slavek, and Tim to a lesser extent were involved with the
> rebranding, graphics changes, etc.., Darrel did the lions share of
> reorganizing and rebranding the TDE help system and Slavek 
> implemented most of 
> the k->t name changes -- though if I recall correctly he was also mired in
> completing to move to CMake at the time)
> Functionally, v3.5.13 will likely lack a number of the improvements in the
> current version (for a while significant improvements were "cherry-picked"
> and 
> backported to v3.5.13, but I don't know if that has been done in years) You
> will not be able to mix/match any of the current version TDE components with
> v3.5.13 components because of the internal k->t renaming that took place.
> Unless there have been other changes to v3.5.13 since 2014, that, in a
> nutshell, is the difference.

Thanks for these precises explanations.

If I use "mirror.xcer.cz", the upgrade is short,
If I use "mirror.ppa", long upgrade or many packages.
(or, it's the opposite...)