Hi guys, I was and still am rather short on time and will not nearly be able to put full days of work into KDE at the moment, but now that the escape has occured, there's something substantial to work with at last.
Steps to KDE4 as I see them: Step 0 is tying up some loose ends like updating Qt4 to the latest version and the like - arved, I saw you committed checksums, I can take it from here if you want me to - I have some scripts lying around for updating Qt4 rather painlessly and also still have access to fruitsalad for checking/generating plists. Step 1 is deciding what to do about that nice boulder that Novell^WKDE rolled in our path: prefixes. You cannot build KDE4 in same prefix as KDE3. Period. You cannot easily build KDE4 either if KDE3 is in /usr/local and if Qt3 is in /usr/local and KDE4 is supposed to end up somewhere in /usr/local. I'd like to hear about experiences from people who already built large parts of KDE4 on systems with KDE3 installed - how much effort and hackery do we need to make things build with leaving Qt3 where it is? Would it be worthwhile to just make a clean cut and move Qt3, Qt4 and KDE3 into their own subdir below /usr/local after all? I am prepared to do it, if need be (I suppose nobody wants to go down the CONFLICTS road). Step 2 will be getting all the modules to build and to run somewhat reasonably. It will be just like the old days, lots of swearing and patching and 80% of KDE working in the beginning and 95% of KDE working just before KDE5 will come out. :) Step 3 will be cutting up the distribution modules into smaller pieces whereever possible/sensible and possibly write a kde.mk for the task. Step 4 will be then dumping KDE4 into ports. I fully expect that the first version of KDE4 to be committed to ports will *not* be 4.0.0, but I have been wrong before. Comments, flames, additions? Cheers, -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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