From amarok-devel Mon Jan 24 11:20:47 2011 From: Mark Kretschmann Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:20:47 +0000 To: amarok-devel Subject: Project NEON - resurrected :) Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=amarok-devel&m=129586811324041 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 :) -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer, CEO of Kretschmann Software Consulting Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe http://amarok.kde.org - http://fsfe.org - http://kde.org _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel