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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 16:05:28
Message-ID: C36DA978-2629-4D03-88A3-F986D00E1CB3 () mikearthur ! co ! uk
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On 10 May 2010, at 17:00, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:

> I'm distributing universal binaries of my VMPK program for Mac OSX (  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmpk/files/ ) because it is a Qt4 only 
> program, and being the only required dependencies a few Qt4 libs it is easy 
> to create a single bundle containing everything necessary. But for a KDE 
> application this is just impractical. That is more or less solved by Fink or 
> Macports, for the technical matters. The other (social) side of the issue is 
> related to the community nature of KDE. But if there is no community 
> involvement and the developers feel that they are simply left on their own, 
> they may prefer to avoid porting KDE applications to Mac. Or even avoid 
> creating KDE applications at all.

Personally I'm all for developers being told that Qt applications are FAR more \
portable than KDE applications. I'd go as far as to say that there are no KDE \
applications that are ported and packaged sufficiently for novice end-users on \
Windows or Mac. There are plenty of Qt applications that meet this requirement.

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



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