[kde-solaris] Solaris and KDE

Dan and Michelle Smith dssmms at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 29 19:23:19 CEST 2003


My vote as well.  As some of you may know, I had the
(un)fortunate pleasure of porting KDE 3.1.2 w/ gcc 3.3
a few weeks ago.  Wasn't pretty, and I had a Dual
900MHz processor Blade 2000!  I think it took me about
2 days!  Sorry, but I can't share the results :-( 
Government machine.

Dan
--- Stefan Teleman <steleman at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> All is peaceful again in KDE Land. :-) The packages
> will be back in 
> their usual place until i finish 3.1.2 or 3.1.3,
> which will replace 
> them.
> 
> I would like to step up and ask everyone if they
> agree for me to be 
> one of the official Solaris maintainers of KDE. I
> would be very 
> honored to do this in an "official" role. I have a
> pretty fast Ultra 
> 60 at home (and i'm the only one using it :-), and
> i've been working 
> on fixing khtml anyway (it's driving me nuts, i love
> it :-), so why 
> not. Besides, i believe that an official
> maintainership of KDE 
> Solaris will boost KDE's usage tremendously.
> 
> I also do not have any "territorial claims" over KDE
> on Solaris. 
> Actually, in my 12+ years of software engineering
> experience (which 
> is what i do for a living), i have learned that more
> than one pair of 
> eyes are always better than just one. So, i would
> very much welcome a 
> joint effort for maintaining/porting KDE to Solaris.
> 
> Please let me know. I hesitated to make this
> proposal until now 
> because i did not want to come across as pushy or
> self-promoting.
> 
> --Stefan
> 
> -----
> 
> On Tuesday 29 July 2003 05:09, Eva Brucherseifer
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 09:56, Laurent Blume
> wrote:
> > > Stefan Teleman wrote:
> > > > I am just letting everyone know. I thought KDE
> was interested
> > > > in being available for, and being ported to,
> more than Linux. I
> > > > guess i must have been wrong.
> > >
> > > I still hope you were right, and that they will
> change their
> > > mind! I really wish Solaris packages would come
> out as fast as
> > > GNU/Linux ones, for both Sparc and x86 (since
> I'm using the
> > > latter).
> > > Compiling to have the last version is not that
> hard, but it takes
> > > too long.
> >
> > Actually it all depends on an active packager who
> is subscribed to
> > the kde-packagers list and takes part in the
> discussions there. At
> > least that is how it works for the other
> OSes/distributions. All
> > source packages are announced there 2 weeks before
> the official
> > announcement and people try to synchronize the
> release of binary
> > packages.
> >
> > So far there was no volunteer to take the full
> burden of
> > maintainership of solaris packages :-(
> >
> > Greetings,
> > eva
> >
> > > Laurent
> > >
> > >
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> -- 
> Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish
> Inquisition'
> steleman at nyc.rr.com                          -Monty
> Python
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