[KDE/Mac] So I think we should plan what we're going to do for the 4.1 release.

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Big O <illogical1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And I propose it involve macports. A lot. The reasoning behind this is
> that I find macports far easier to understand than say fink or
> rangerrick's build system :-) And I'm thinking that if I find it
> complicated other, potential contributers (i.e. packagers) will as
> well. After all we can't realistically lay all weight of packaging KDE
> on the shoulders of one man. That's just inviting burnout, and then
> who'd I go to cry to when something goes wrong with my KDE on Mac? ;-)
> So this is also a call for volunteers. Contributors if you will, to
> step up and do various tasks around our KDE/Mac project that need
> doing.

Awesome!  Sounds like a great idea.

[...]

> P.S. I believe lovelace on IRC is currently working on macports
> packages for kde (i.e. all of them, again, one guy). I'm volunteering
> to help with that. I'll be available for sure after 5:00 p.m. est.
> Don't count on me before that but I will be checking e-mail, even if I
> can't answer.

I am indeed.  Of course, that's been interrupted by taking some vacation
the past couple of months and then losing all internet connectivity this
past week.  But, that just shows, I believe, that there needs to be more
people working on it.

Current status is that qt4-mac is currently set up in a
good default state for KDE.  CLucene has been updated to a new
enough version that will work with Strigi and Strigi has been packaged
as a port, submitted, and accepted.

The main thing I'm thinking about now is how to get everything else from
kdesupport packaged.  Once that is done, I believe we can start with kdelibs
and then rest of the kde packages.  I really don't think they'll be that hard
to do once everything else is packaged up.

Cheers,
Tanner Lovelace

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