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On Thursday 17 February 2005 10:08, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> which works on most platforms. my understanding is that for KDE 4, BC
> with KDE 3 needs not be maintained. so, i am offering to fix the
> things which don't happen to work on Solaris. but, there's also Linux
> and FreeBSD. so, i was asking if, in case we run into a situation
> where something works on Linux but not Solaris, or FreeBSD, or
> vice-versa, could we work together to try to find a common solution,
> rather than relying on separate source code patches. when necessary,
> by abstracting the OS-dependent interfaces, for example. i do realize

i think this has always been the desire and goal, we've just lacked people =
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act as intermediaries between some of these pools of downstream patches and=
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the official KDE sources. if you're willing to do this for Solaris, then th=
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would be awesome. all it takes is for someone on Solaris to post a patch=20
saying "this makes it work, i'm not sure it breaks on other OSes" to get=20
feedback, fixes.

so this doesn't take changes to the current process, it just requires chang=
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(or rather, additions) to our current development team.

now i'm all curious about how big the patch set is for Solaris, and what BI=
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changes there are. i'll be watching for the patches when they start rolling=
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in =3D)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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