[kde-freebsd] kdebindings4 port (Re: KDE 4.2 - Missing printer app?)

[Kris Moore]

Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:04:47 -0500, Kris Moore wrote:
>> Hey all, I've got a build of KDE 4.2 beta2 running here, and everything
>> seems to be working well, just had to fix that annoying anokonadi error
>> at first :)
>>
>> Besides that, I just noticed that I cannot find the new kde printing
>> wizard which is supposed to be apart of KDE 4.2 again. Is it not in the
>> beta2, or do we have it disabled for some reason in the build right now?
> 
> Several kde4 apps including printer-applet is written on python. So PyKDE4, 
> which is a part of kdebindings, should be ported at first. I had a hope that 
> Danny Ricin would port it, seems he has no time for py-qt/kde currently.
> I've started kdebinding port for kde-4.1.0 
> (http://people.freebsd.org/~makc/ports/kdebindings-4.1.0.tar.bz2), but have 
> stopped for lack of time. The port requires a lot of work to fit it for our 
> ports infrastructure.
> Dima Panov has created port for python bindings (see 
> http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2009-January/004328.html) and 
> faced with one of the problems.
> 
> First, kde4 ports are supposed to be installed in ${KDE4_PREFIX} to prevent 
> conflicts with kde3. But kdebindings4 in case of python binding should install 
> files to ${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}, which is somewhere under ${LOCALBASE}. Same for 
> ruby and php bindings (don't know anything about java and mono/csharp 
> bindings). We could try install bindings to ${LOCALBASE}, if bindings 
> dependent apps would be ok with this (I hope so). Or install them to 
> KDE4_PREFIX, if python/ruby/etc can live with several PYTHON_*DIR/RUBY_*DIR.
> 
> The second problems is how cmake does check for python/ruby. Freebsd ports 
> provides several versions of python/ruby (and several versions could be 
> installed in the same time) and kdebindings4 ports should respect that. The 
> only way I see is to rewrite FindRuby/FindPython.cmake for our needs.
> 
> Anyway I think kde-4.2.0 ports should be with at least python and ruby 
> bindings, so I will restart my work soon. Help is appreciated, especially for 
> java/csharp bindings (if anybody wants them).
> 
> Max
> 
> 


Humm, so this sounds like a pretty complex port to bring over then. I'll 
be glad to help test it out a bit if you can get something to a 
buildable state, but the actual porting is probably a bit beyond my skill :)

I will be taking a look at the kipi-plugins-kde4 again though, I had a 
port about ready to go previously, and was just waiting for 4.2 to hit.


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Kris Moore
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