Ian Collins wrote:
Steven Christensen wrote:
First, my sincere apologies to all for being missing from these
discussions for a while. My work load, like all of yours surely, has
been, and still is, heavy. I also wanted to have something actually
constructive to say.
In summary -
With regard to KDE. I am currently putting Stefan's KDE work on
sunfreeware.com <http://sunfreeware.com> and its
mirrors for use, testing, comments, etc. I hope to put an
announcement up this weekend
when I am sure it is all there and Stefan says it is OK. The next
step will be getting it into the Companion CD environment - then
eventually compiled with gcc and some or all of the CCD libraries.
This new part will take a bit of time.
Good to see things are moving forward, but why gcc?
It's one of those historical things. For almost all of the Companion
CD's lifetime (going on 6 years now) the Sun Studio compilers were not
freely available. So in the interest of transparency, Companion CD
packages (as much as possible) were built with gcc. The philosophy being
that end-users should be able to take the source package and do a
re-compile (with the aid of the maintainer's README notes) w/out having
to buy a compiler.
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