From amarok Mon Jan 24 11:41:45 2011 From: Girard Henri Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:41:45 +0000 To: amarok Subject: Re: Project NEON - resurrected :) Message-Id: <1295869305.3109.7.camel () pc> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=amarok&m=129587043126396 Thanks ... Really a good news I tried it some time but I noticed it wasn't working anymore ! lol Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 12:20 +0100, Mark Kretschmann a écrit : > Hey all, > > some of you might remember project NEON, which was started by Harald > Sitter (apachelogger), back in the day. What NEON did was really cool: > Providing nightly builds of Amarok and KDE, for Ubuntu/Kubuntu. > > Sadly, Harald ran out of time for maintaining it, so the service has > been in the fridge for a long time. But now, we have good news! > Kubuntu developer Rohan Garg is working on bringing the project back > to life. What he needs is testers. Please be aware that the system is > not yet fully finished, and there is no guarantee that it will work. > But any feedback would be very useful for Rohan. Please let me paste > the information that Rohan himself sent to me: > > > > Hi! > Project Neon needs little or no introduction for those who have used > it in the past.For those who haven't heard of it, it provides Nightly > builds of KDE. Some time ago, the project was abandoned because of > maintenance issues, and now its back with a bang.Sort of, read on to > find out ;) . > > For the past 5-6 months we have been trying to ressurect Project Neon > [0], and we have been partially successful, for most part the base > packages which are required to run KDE are in the PPA, more info on > what packages are available are here [1]. Most of these packages have > been compiled with all build dependencies satisfied with the exception > of KDE Bindings which is still being packaged.Even the Qt packages > have been taken from the kde-qt branch. > > Note that Neon is currently in a pre-alpha condition and might not > work for you at a particular time, this might be due to issues in KDE > itself or our packaging.If you find a packaging issue, please report > it on launchpad against the Neon PPA ( using the ubuntu-bug tool ) and > any KDE bugs go into the KDE Bug tracker. > > Some of the current issues we face [2]. You can also expect Project > Neon to be completely broken during KDE's move to git, please give us > some time to fix our imports after the migration is over. > > I'd like to warn you again that these are pre-alpha builds and should > be installed only by the adventurous and brave hearted. > > Install instructions : Step 1) Add the Project Neon PPA with : sudo > add-apt-repository ppa:/neon/ppa > Step 2) sudo apt-get update > Step 3) sudo apt-get install > project-neon-all [ to install the complete KDE SC release, except for > bindings which are being worked upon at the moment ] > Step 4) Logout of Stable KDE > Choose > Project Neon in KDM > Login with your username and password. All your > Project Neon settings are stored in a seprate folder away from your > stable KDE ~/.kde folder > [0] https://launchpad.net/~neon/+archive/ppa > [1]https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Packaging?highlight=(ProjectNeon) > [2] https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/ProjectNeon/Issues > > Regards > Rohan Garg > > > > You can contact Rohan on Freenode IRC (shadeslayer in #kubuntu-devel), > or via mail: Rohan Garg > > Enjoy :) > _______________________________________________ Amarok mailing list Amarok@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok