[KDE/Mac] kde-mac Digest, Vol 76, Issue 7

[Sayan Biswas]

Hi,

Thank you for throwing some light on this. I am using El Capitan. My laptop
is not
suited for large scale development as the configuration set is not that
good.

Well preferably, my primary interest lies in the development on KF5. I
actually would like
to try my hand with the feature set that is close as possible to the
feature set of
Linux as it will be easier for me to figure out in the initial phases of
development.

But I would definitely like to try my hand on the latter one that you have
mentioned.

My main concern now is to build/make any KDE app in my system. I will try
to figure out
à la MacPorts or Fink method of installation. As I am completely new and
any outdated
documentation for me looks like a "linguistic hard to parse". If somehow I
can't manage
to get things running in my system, I will ping you again.

If any other way of installation is present for KF5, please post it. I
would be happy to try
out those also.

Regards,
Sayan

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:15 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday March 22 2016 19:37:32 Sayan Biswas wrote:
>
> Hello Sayan,
>
> > I have used KDE in fedora and done some development also. But somehow I
> am
> > failing
> > to install any KDE application on my OSX. I am new with OSX and want to
> do
> > some
> > development in the OSX version of KDE.
>
> Do I understand that you are trying to install KF5 ("KDE 5")?
>
> > I have tried Macports but somehow I am unable to build or make any KDE
> > application.
>
> It is possible at the moment to install KF5 ports through MacPorts, but it
> requires using a special port repository, as well as a patched version of
> Qt5. Setting up MacPorts to use such a repository isn't very hard, and
> additional testers are welcome.
> I'm in the process of upgrading a number of these ports, so I'm not going
> to point you to my own repository just now.
>
> What would be your development interest in KF5/Mac? Do you just want to
> make the applications work as optimally as possible, with a feature-set
> that is as close as possible to the feature set on Linux? Or would you want
> to focus on making applications that users can interact with as much as
> possible as they interact with typical native applications? The former
> doesn't exclude every aspect of the latter, but making standalone,
> all-containing application bundles still requires a lot of additional work
> because it is so different.
>
> I've always considered that a 2nd step, something to be tackled after
> optimal feature-parity had been attained in a more traditional way of
> installing (with shared libraries and ditto resources, i.e. à la MacPorts
> or Fink). But quite a few KF5 developers appear to think differently.
>
> > I have also tried using the library
> https://github.com/haraldF/homebrew-kf5.
> > The main problem that I am facing is while trying to execute the KF5
> archive
> > given in the github description/README.md (brew install
> > haraldf/kf5/kf5-karchive),
> > my terminal gets stuck.
>
> I'm not familiar with HB's way of installing KF5, so I cannot help you
> there. What kind of Mac do you have, is it well suited for large build jobs?
>
> Cheers,
> René
>
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