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<p>Hi marcel,</p>
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<p>On Tuesday 29 May 2007 03:39:04 Marcel Partap wrote:</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> My dear KDE developers,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> pardon my impatience but when will I be able to compile the whole of KDE4</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> on windows non-manually, like with Konstruct? What happened to the kewl</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> winemerge build script Holger Schröder contributed? I'd really like to join</span></p>
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<p>the script is still there, but it was not updated for two months, because i </p>
<p>had other university things to do. getting a nice build system for windows up </p>
<p>and running is one of the things that we want to do. we are aware, that it is </p>
<p>not that easy to compile kde on windows right now. we are working on this...</p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> in on debugging this 'next best Windows GUI', and of course have fun with</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> trying to get it to compile under WINE. But right now, the build manual</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> seems outdated, and people keep complaining about missing files;</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> additionally I'd prefer to compile everything on my computer and not load</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> it with 'foreign' binaries.. So, what about a proper automatic build</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> system? Would it not be time well invested? IMHO a lot of duplicate</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> fiddling is taking place right now.. I may be completely wrong on that</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> though.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> regards,</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> Marcel</span></p>
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<p>we are always happy, when people join in and help us with some tasks, for </p>
<p>example we would be happy, when some python hacker would step up and keep the </p>
<p>emerge scripts up-to-date, that job is quite simple. or somebody could keep </p>
<p>the online documentation up-to-date...</p>
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<p>regards, Holger</p>
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