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List:       kde-mac
Subject:    Re: [KDE/Mac] Packaging (was Re: [rkward-users] problem installing
From:       Mike Arthur <mike () mikearthur ! co ! uk>
Date:       2010-05-10 14:48:00
Message-ID: 87B03E5E-22DF-4254-BEC3-1E0D126C8817 () mikearthur ! co ! uk
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On 10 May 2010, at 15:37, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> I don't think that a upstream developer should be also responsible of 
> packaging applications for every platform/packaging system in the world.

I agree but I also think that if they want it to be as easy as possible for their \
users then they should package for the most popular packaging systems. That doesn't \
mean that they "should" but just that it's best for their users. Compiling \
applications and all their dependencies is not something OSX users are used to doing.

> I've ported KMid (in extragear/multimedia, current release: 2.3.0) to Mac OSX 
> and Windows, offering the same user experience on each platform as the Linux 
> version has. I think it is easy enough to compile it anywhere. Being myself a 
> Linux user, I've also published quick and dirty packages for Ubuntu and 
> openSUSE, but this is clearly a job for somebody else doing it better by 
> focusing on a single platform and packaging standard.
> 
> I'm willing to provide help, support and advice to anybody wanting to make 
> Fink/Macports packages for KMid. Volunteers?


I'm not meaning to be a prat here but it's really not that hard to create these \
packages yourself. It's certainly a lot easier than creating binary packages on \
Linux. If someone volunteers then that's great but this list doesn't generally get a \
lot of activity so I'm just preparing you for the possibility that you'll have to do \
it yourself or not get a package at all. KDE on Mac is extremely niche and there's \
not a lot of us doing a lot of regular work on it.

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



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