On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 23:16, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/14/2010 08:56 PM, Robert Xu wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I know we ended the discussion about keeping KDE 3.5.10 a long time ago, but >> I just heard about some unofficial KDE 3.5 branch, called KDE Trinity. >> They've released >> a 3.5.11 of KDE 3, and I think they're trying to port it to use Qt4. >> Is it possible that we could >> update our KDE to their KDE 3.5.11? maybe? Or should we just stick >> with what we have? >> > > Robert, sorry for the late reply. Does KDE 3.5.10 still build
Very late. :P > correctly? I was hoping we still had a few KDE3 fans about to speak up. > I don't believe anybody has plans to put KDE-4.x into the book ATM. If > you (or anybody else) would like to put in the leg work to getting the > book to use Trinity, I'll be happy to build, test, and commit it rather > than ditching KDE all together. I'd rather like to see KDE-4, but I > really just don't have the time or energy to figure out cmake and > friends and there just doesn't seem to be any interest from anyone, > editor or contributors, in putting it into the book. Eventually, I'll > have to learn at least cmake as some projects will want it soon enough. > As far as I know, KDE 3.5.10 still builds and runs under LFS 6.5. :) > A couple of things regarding the book commits for whoever (if anyone) > would like to take it on: > > 1. Start with a wiki page, or with a custom copy of the book, we can > host it or you can, try to keep it synced with current as best you can. > I think I'll just do a wiki page. Easier for me. > 2. You need to be sure that there is an informational page explaining > that Trinity is not KDE, and is in no way related to KDE beyond that > KDE-3.5.10 is the base from which Trinity was created. Bug reports go > to Trinity, not to KDE.org. > ok... > 3. The informational page should mention that translations are known to > be out of date and that only English is officially supported, unless > this has changed since I last looked (which was a couple of months ago). > I think this is the case as well. The rest of the KDE translations are from 3.5.10. > 4. Whoever takes it on will learn what it is like to account for *all* > optional dependencies. This is not a fun task, and with KDE, I'd > imagine at least 5 or 6 full builds from a base system. Use some form > of snapshot and the /opt prefix for easy testing. The maintainer of Trinity also has a PPA for Trinity. Might make dependencies easier. > > 5. Figure out if there is a way to separate it back into the original > 15 logical packages (or whatever it was). > > 6. We should host the downloads on our mirrors as it took something > like 8 hours to download a 600MB file from the current host. > Trinity is really slow. And it's practically a SVN export. I have to split it up into sub-packages myself. > I hope that they eventually get that into Alioth, or some sort of host > to that effect, and split back into meta packages (assuming that there > is still some interest). I hope there is. > > -- DJ Lucas > > -- I've just registered on the BLFS trac, so I'll be putting things over there as I get to them. (It'll take a bit of time; I'm busy some/most of the time) -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
