[KDE/Mac] New Packages. Almost, but not quite KDE 4.1.2 universal.

[Orville Bennett]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Jonas Bähr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 25.09.2008 um 23:55 schrieb Big O:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Carsten Pfeiffer
>> <pfeiffer at kde.org> wrote:
>>> Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 schrieb Julian Mehnle:
>>>
>>>> awesome work!  I'm going to test that over the next few days.
>>>
>>> Same here, can't wait to try them out. Did you consider also
>>> packaging
>>> Digikam, btw?
>> I did not consider it. My ultimate plan (yes, there is a fiendish  
>> plot
>> behind all this) is to lay the groundwork for others to join in and
>> contribute to KDE/Mac. With all the pain and suffering of setting up
>> and build environment already done, anyone can join in and build the
>> minimal deps and package they're interested in and thereafter  
>> maintain
>> it.
>
> Thanks for your packages, I'll try them as soon as possible.
> Now that you have the knowledge, perhaps you (and benjamin) could set
> up a page on techbase.kde.org about *how* to create these packages.
> There is a page [1] describing how to set up the build environment
> and to compile kde from source (which helped my a lot one year ago)
> but there is nothing about how to create packages. Neither for
> individual application bundles (.app's inside .dmg's) (esp.
> interesting for 3rd party software), nor for installer (.pkg's) or
> metapackages (.mpkg's)
> It would be really cool if you could share your knowledge on  
> techbase...
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Mac_OS_X
Oh believe me. It's coming. I've had my eye on that particular page  
for quite some time.
http://illogic-al.org is where I've started "chronicling" my OS X  
adventures. If you want to start out now look at the entries on  
getting gcc 4.2 working on 10.4. I'm not even sure if it's necessary  
at this point, but it works so i'm happy. Plasma (and therefore  
amarok) used to have problems w/ gcc 4.0 compilation so that's why i  
did it.

>
>
> bye,
> Jonas
>
>>
>> This, among other things, make the quality of the packages much
>> better, as the person doing it has a vested interest (in theory
>> anyways) .
>> Also, doing this will remove the burden/bottleneck of only one person
>> providing packages and generally make things move along more  
>> smoothly.
>>
>> So to make this clear, it's not as if I can't provide more packages,
>> I'm just not. /My/ interest begins and ends with Amarok. As I was
>> always bugging RangerRick for (and receiving) help getting it to  
>> build
>> on OS X in the bad old days, I feel this is but one way I can give
>> back to the project. As a bonus the project will benefit far greater
>> than if I alone were giving back. It's like herpes, the gift that  
>> just
>> keeps on giving.
>>
>> I haven't quite gotten things to where I'd like them to be. I still
>> need to blow away macports (accidentally done yesterday anyways) then
>> redo the whole thing over, and then provide clear, concise
>> instructions to follow.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carsten
>>>
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>> However. I will consider adding more packages to the kde.pkg based on
>> demand. KTorrent (for reasons I can not fathom) is one which is in  
>> the
>> pipeline, as it was/is a popular request on IRC. I'd also like to
>> finish up everything here
>> http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/stable/4.1.1/src/ (minus
>> kdeaccessibility, kde-l10n/ and extragear). My current bias against
>> packaging kde-l10n simply has to do with me not knowing what to do
>> with it, so if someone could tell me...
>>
>> -- 
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