Future of KDE Development

[Frerich Raabe]

On Thursday 17 February 2005 14:01, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 February 2005 07:53, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 February 2005 01:46, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 February 2005 10:07, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > Would it be possible, for KDE4, to try to find a common ground
> > > between the primary development OS and those other OS's which
> > > sometimes disagree with the primary OS, but not necessarily in a
> > > mutually exclusive manner ?
> >
> > I'm not sure I get this right. Is that a complicated way of saying
> > 'KDE should work better with platforms other than Linux'?
> >
> > - Frerich
>
> No.
>
> KDE works very well on some "platforms other than Linux". Something
> you may or may not be aware of.

I'm an happy FreeBSD person myself, and KDE works nicely. :-)

> It means accepting patches for these "platforms other than Linux", and
> when Linux and these other platforms disagree, or are incompatible,
> trying to find, and being open to, an implementation which works on
> either, without the need for additional source code patches.

From what I can tell everybody was always interested in getting KDE to run on 
platforms other than Linux. I'm well aware of the loads and loads of patches 
the KDE-FreeBSD folks sometimes need to get KDE building, and they're one 
after the other being pushed upstream.

I don't see a problem with the current situation, other than maybe the 
developer discipline with respect to portability is not as good as it could 
be but oh well. :-)

- Frerich
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