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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    A proposal to deal with the current RedHat situation
From:       Shawn Gordon <shawn () thekompany ! com>
Date:       2002-09-01 14:59:02
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Hi all,

I've been expecting something like this to happen for some time now, but it 
does seem to me that what RedHat is doing is really trying to destroy the 
popularity of KDE more than anything.  I've put forward some proposals for 
an official KDE distributions a number of times, but perhaps my concept was 
a bit more difficult to implement than I thought, so I have an alternate 
proposal and all it really requires is a few volunteers to create spec 
files, let me explain (I'm not subscribed to kde-devel any more, so either 
reply privately or CC me privately if you wish to discuss it).

Since we have to package our software to work on various versions of KDE 
and linux distros and versions, we built a system we call Jane that has 
about 10 different distros on it, various versions of the popular ones, we 
try to have the current release and 1 or 2 releases back typically.  We 
have a very cool technology that we built that will take a source tarball 
with the spec files for building in each of those distros in it and go 
through and build them all automatically, at the end you will get a set of 
rpms for each distro for each thing you've built.  If someone is willing to 
create and maintain those spec files for the various pieces that need to be 
included for each distro/version, then we can use our build system and 
technology to create packages for all the various distros that we 
support.  This way KDE would make the packages, and not the distros.  So 
now when people complain that RedHat has a fubarred KDE we can point them 
to the "official" KDE package (hosted by KDE).

*Someone* just needs to decide what version of Qt, KDE, gcc, etc., make up 
this official version.

We aren't asking anything for this (although if IBM wants to donate a more 
powerful server to speed things up we wouldn't say no :).  My interest lies 
totally in the fact that I want to have a stable and consistent KDE and I 
don't want to see it go away because it is such a terrific application.

So that is the general principal.  I'm interested in constructive feedback 
and discussion about pulling this off.  Seems like a fairly moderate amount 
of work (maintaining spec files, and of course debian).


Regards,

Shawn Gordon
President
theKompany.com
www.thekompany.com
949-713-3276


 
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