Project NEON - resurrected :)

[Girard Henri]

Thanks ... Really a good news I tried it some time but I noticed it
wasn't working anymore ! lol

Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 12:20 +0100, Mark Kretschmann a écrit :
> Hey all,
> 
> some of you might remember project NEON, which was started by Harald
> Sitter (apachelogger), back in the day. What NEON did was really cool:
> Providing nightly builds of Amarok and KDE, for Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
> 
> Sadly, Harald ran out of time for maintaining it, so the service has
> been in the fridge for a long time. But now, we have good news!
> Kubuntu developer Rohan Garg is working on bringing the project back
> to life. What he needs is testers. Please be aware that the system is
> not yet fully finished, and there is no guarantee that it will work.
> But any feedback would be very useful for Rohan. Please let me paste
> the information that Rohan himself sent to me:
> 
> <quote>
> 
> Hi!
> Project Neon needs little or no introduction for those who have used
> it in the past.For those who haven't heard of it, it provides Nightly
> builds of KDE. Some time ago, the project was abandoned because of
> maintenance issues, and now its back with a bang.Sort of, read on to
> find out ;) .
> 
> For the past 5-6 months we have been trying to ressurect Project Neon
> [0], and we have been partially successful, for most part the base
> packages which are required to run KDE are in the PPA, more info on
> what packages are available are here [1]. Most of these packages have
> been compiled with all build dependencies satisfied with the exception
> of KDE Bindings which is still being packaged.Even the Qt packages
> have been taken from the kde-qt branch.
> 
> Note that Neon is currently in a pre-alpha condition and might not
> work for you at a particular time, this might be due to issues in KDE
> itself or our packaging.If you find a packaging issue, please report
> it on launchpad against the Neon PPA ( using the ubuntu-bug tool ) and
> any KDE bugs go into the KDE Bug tracker.
> 
> Some of the current issues we face [2]. You can also expect Project
> Neon to be completely broken during KDE's move to git, please give us
> some time to fix our imports after the migration is over.
> 
> I'd like to warn you again that these are pre-alpha builds and should
> be installed only by the adventurous and brave hearted.
> 
> Install instructions : Step 1) Add the Project Neon PPA with : sudo
> add-apt-repository ppa:/neon/ppa
>                              Step 2) sudo apt-get update
>                              Step 3) sudo apt-get install
> project-neon-all [ to install the complete KDE SC release, except for
> bindings which are being worked upon at the moment ]
>                              Step 4) Logout of Stable KDE > Choose
> Project Neon in KDM > Login with your username and password. All your
> Project Neon settings are stored in a seprate folder away from your
>                                          stable KDE ~/.kde folder
> [0] https://launchpad.net/~neon/+archive/ppa
> [1]https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Packaging?highlight=(ProjectNeon)
> [2] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Issues
> 
> Regards
> Rohan Garg
> 
> </quote>
> 
> You can contact Rohan on Freenode IRC (shadeslayer in #kubuntu-devel),
> or via mail: Rohan Garg <rohangarg at ubuntu.com>
> 
> Enjoy :)
>