FAQ a bit unclear (Windows Vista HP, KDE 4.0)

[Gabriel Green]

The reason I wanted to install KDE4 in the first place is because it says
this on the KDE/cygwin page:

*This project has stopped active development to be free for the native KDE 4
port on Windows.

*To me, that meant to look there instead.

On 8/28/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 28.08.07 17:53:00, Dapuzz wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:18:15 +0200, Gabriel Green <gabegreen at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The instructions for compiling KDE4 have me dumbfounded.  The
> directories
> > > the installer places things in bear no resemblance to the instructions
> on
> > > the website.  Is this because it is outdated or because I am missing
> > > something?
> > >
> > > For example, I have no directory called win32libs.  It seems to put
> those
> > > libraries and executables in C:\KDE4\bin
> > >
> > > Also, does anyone have binary packages available to get me started?
> > >
> > Have you a second partition named 'D:'?
> > Does 'andreas' is your name?
> >
> > Don't rank me a rude but the tutorial (expecially on kdelibs.com) is not
> a
> > step-by-step guide to follow without understand what the tutorial itself
> > is telling you to do.
>
> Are you kidding? That tutorial explains that the author uses these paths
> and the user might want to use different paths. Those instructions are
> for developers, not end users that want to play with KDE4/win32. The
> win32 version is nowhere near a beta quality that would allow end users
> to play with the apps.
>
> And I do expect a developer to be able to follow these instructions
> replacing paths mentioned with the paths on his own system.
>
> Anyway, if you think it needs improvement (actually IMHO kdelibs.com
> should be shut down and all content moved to techbase), please improve
> the step-by-step instructions on techbase.
>
> The kdelibs.com pages now indicate they are outdated (dunno wether
> SaroEngels just did that or wether that was there longer, if it was than
> Gabriel needs to put his lenses on when reading ;).
>
> Andreas
>
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