[KDE/Mac] What is the suggested KDE distribution?

[Martin Krischik]

Am 28.09.2008 um 10:58 schrieb Marco Calviani:

> Dear list,
>    i was wondering what is the best solution to obtain KDE 4.1  
> packages for Mac. Up to now i've used the macports version available  
> by theiggy.com. However it seems that they are no longer updated.   
> Now it seems that again the suggested solution is now to use the  
> image files produced by Big O. Is there a long term schedule  
> concerning the distribution of those packages?
>
>

I fear currently I can't recommend any. There are three options open:

1) The mpkg version on http://mac.kde.org/ - super old, buggy but  
installation is simple - once you read all the tech-notes with all the  
workaround for all the bugs.

2) The MacPorts version on theiggy.com. Good start but somehow  
stalled. And incompatible with the kde3 installation from MacPorts,  
The later being the reason why I never got round to fully test the  
version.

3) MacPorts is probably stalled because of the plans to create a cross  
platform release using CPack. While a cross platform packaging sounds  
great - there is not a single CPack release yet. I read up on the  
CPack documentation and I think they are not as far as MacPorts. As  
such CPack might turn out to be still born.

Personally I like MacPorts most, it got a very active community and  
with it's ability to produce debian and red hat packages sufficiently  
cross platform. CPacks only advantage is the NSIS (MS-Windows) support.

But as it is, and as I said in the beginning: I can't recommend any.

Regards

Martin

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Martin Krischik
krischik at users.sourceforge.net

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