On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:19:41PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > > > old. are there any future plans to update kde4? > > > > > > Regards, > > > Donald Cooley > > > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&w=2&r=1&s=openbsd&q=b > > KDE doesn't give a fuck about OpenBSD, so why should we? > > You're totally mistaken. > > KDE cares about the BSDs, and they're very much no-nonsense people. > I had absolutely no difficulty getting an account with them, nor with > folding back portable patches I had to make things work on OpenBSD.
KDE cares in so far as they accept patches and would welcome a developer that targets OpenBSD. I know because I've talked to some of them on IRC. There's however no effort to do it themselves or even set up a testbox to make sure all their developers would notice that their applications don't work on !Linux. > > The main reason we're behind for kde4 is that it's mostly impossible > to compile kde4 with gcc3, so there is some upheaval there. I'm aware of that. To be honest, I thought a little oil in the fire can't hurt and could even attract some responses that may change the situation ;-) > > Also the fact that back when I ported kde 4.0, it was not interesting > at all, especially compared to 3.5.10. > > Other issues have happened since then. It shouldn't be that hard to get > kde4 to work, once you get past the gcc4 issue (and port cmake, but > apparently 2.8.0 is nicer).
