[KDE/Mac] Packaging (was Re: [rkward-users] problem installing on Mac)

[Mike Arthur]

On 10 May 2010, at 17:00, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> I'm distributing universal binaries of my VMPK program for Mac OSX (  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/ ) because it is a Qt4 only 
> program, and being the only required dependencies a few Qt4 libs it is easy 
> to create a single bundle containing everything necessary. But for a KDE 
> application this is just impractical. That is more or less solved by Fink or 
> Macports, for the technical matters. The other (social) side of the issue is 
> related to the community nature of KDE. But if there is no community 
> involvement and the developers feel that they are simply left on their own, 
> they may prefer to avoid porting KDE applications to Mac. Or even avoid 
> creating KDE applications at all.

Personally I'm all for developers being told that Qt applications are FAR more portable than KDE applications. I'd go as far as to say that there are no KDE applications that are ported and packaged sufficiently for novice end-users on Windows or Mac. There are plenty of Qt applications that meet this requirement.

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Cheers,
Mike Arthur
http://mikearthur.co.uk