Keep KPPP alive

[Olivier BELLEUX]

Dear Albert Astals Cid,

I understand perfectly that it is impossible to find a developer who has the skills and resources to carry this port to kf5.

Unfortunately I am not a computer scientist but a lawyer ... so I would not be able to try it.

Of course kppp does not die with the release of Application 17.12 but it seems fairly obvious that my distribution (openSUSE Leap) will no longer distribute kppp in its OSS repository and that most major distributions will do the same. Perhaps a KDE4 repository will be created at the Open Build Service as for KDE3.

If Kppp were to "disappear" from my distro, I could always fall back on wvdial, but I think all potential kppp users will not have the skills to configure it properly.

Good Sunday, and thank you very much for your reply.

Goodbye

-- 
*Olivier BELLEUX[1]_ _*
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> Kppp being as specilized as it is, i don't think that anyone that doesn't use 
> it can really work on porting it to KF5. How would I test it works?
> 
> If you have any coding skills you really want to try to do it, we can help.
> 
> Note that also the fact that we stop releasing it, doesn't mean that 
> distributions *have* to drop it (though i guess it will happen at some point).
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert




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