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List:       kde-mac
Subject:    Re: [KDE/Mac] [rkward-users] problem installing on Mac
From:       Mike Arthur <mike () mikearthur ! co ! uk>
Date:       2010-05-10 14:02:05
Message-ID: A3626351-D823-4A15-B5E7-44D57D0296CD () mikearthur ! co ! uk
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On 8 May 2010, at 13:28, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:

> Some background information:
> - RKWard is based on KDE4, but is not developed in KDE's SVN (see the \
> above  wiki page)

That's going to make it pretty hard for KDE people to be able to contribute \
fixes. It's SVN as well, right?

> - Our sources contain some X11-specific code, that is not yet ported to \
> the  Mac. Thus I suppose we will need to use an x11-flavored \
> KDE-installation. As  far as I can see, macports does not provide that, \
> but fink does.

KDE/X11 on Mac is truly horrible to use. I'd be surprised if anyone using \
KDE on Mac will use it. The X11 environment is just unpleasant to use, it \
breaks a lot of the window management stuff that Mac users expect to work. \
I wouldn't say it's ported to Mac until it will compile with Qt4/Cocoa \
rather than Qt4/X11.

> - Successful compilation will also require an installation of R \
> (http://www.r- project.org). I do fear that the cmake-code checking for R \
> may also need  adjustments, but at the moment we do not even get to this \
> point.

Yeh, the CMake might need fixed but it can be manually pointed to R fairly \
easily.

> If you are interested to read about our failed efforts so far, see this \
>                 mail-
> thread: 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4BE191E3.30603%40unil.ch&forum_name=rkward-
>  users . But in short, the question is: Could you please tell us what we \
> need  to correct in our instructions?

1) Port out the X11 code
2) Fix the CMake code with the needed paths
3) Make a Fink and Macports package rather than getting users to compile \
manually.

To be honest, I wouldn't try and support Mac until one of your developers \
has access to one or one of your community volunteers to fix the above.

Hope this helps!

--
Cheers,
Mike Arthur
http://mikearthur.co.uk



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