On 3 January 2015 at 10:48, René J.V. <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday January 03 2015 12:26:36 Ian Wadham wrote: >>Great work, René! I think you have taken on a real challenge with Calligra, >>but it would be a real >>coup to get it going on MacPorts, judging by what I have seen on: >>https://www.google.com.au/search?q=calligra+vs+libreoffice&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=SkCnVJvfB8TWmAXz64GACg > > Given the size of the project it'll have to remain something like an > exotic-pet project, and the MacPorts port will most likely build the creative > apps only by default. Much as I'd love to have an alternative to the behemoth > OpenOffice/LibreOffice and much as Calligra looks promising in that domain > (and in a sense closer to iWork 09), it just wasn't there yet when I last had > a serious look a couple of months back. And that's not even mentioning the > fact that the lack of support for drag and drop operations on OS X (other > than among KDE apps) will be a real disadvantage. >
Just for the record, according to plans, we think about Kexi on Mac as a native, regular, shiny, standalone mac app. Let's see what's this interesting year brings. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
