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

[Brian Jackson]

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On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Martin Krischik <krischik at users.sourceforge.net 
 > wrote:

>
> 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.


Not stalled really. I just haven't been able to work on it because  
we've been without power since the hurricane. I'll be getting back on  
it this week.

What kind of incompatibilties are you referring to? I never had kde3  
installed because it required X so I never saw these.


>
> 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
>
> -- 
> Martin Krischik
> krischik at users.sourceforge.net
>
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