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Qt/Mac KDE Call for Help

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-pie dept.

aqsalter writes "Benjamin Reed of Fink fame is calling for help porting KDE to Mac using Qt/Mac. Interested parties should swarm the KDE-Darwin mailing list. KWrite for Mac here we come!"

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  1. Re:But....why? by gdarklighter · · Score: 5, Informative

    If I understand correctly, the effort is not to port the GUI itself, but applications that use the kdelibs and arts libraries (i.e. koffice, konqueror, etc).

  2. GNU-Darwin is irrelevant. by Xenex · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "The one thing I've never understood is the relationship between OpenDarwin and the distribution concerns."
    OpenDarwin distrubute software. They call it DarwinPorts.

    OpenDarwin is a project launched in April 2001 which works towards porting BSD-style software to Darwin, and features a crown jewel of DarwinPorts. OpenDarwin was founded by Apple, although they now have no control over the project's operation. Jordan Hubbard is one of many Apple employees closely associated with the project.

    "GNU-Darwin almost seems to be hindering the entire Mac OSS unix community."
    Virtually no-one in the Macintosh community cares about GNU-Darwin.

    GNU-Darwin is a project founded by a person that goes by the name proclus. This proclus character spends a fair majority of his time replying to valid criticism of his project on sites such as Slashdot and MacSlash. Unfortunately, this time would be much better spent working on the actual GNU-Darwin project; GNU-Darwin has nothing to offer that hasn't already been done better by either OpenDarwin or Fink.

    "This almost surreal splintering can do nothing but harm the overall effort of ported OSS software for the Mac."
    What splintering? GNU-Darwin is totally irrelvant.

    GNU-Darwin are not even involved with Metapgk, an alliance formed between DarwinPorts, Fink, and Gentoo. All the major packaging groups in the Macintosh community are part of this alliance.

    "If we can't agree that the PPC is the heart of the Mac, than what can we agree on?"
    That GNU-Darwin isn't going to exist much longer.

    DarwinPorts is going to be a part of Panther, and OpenDarwin is assured of a bright future. Fink and Gentoo are part of Metapkg, so all porting work that OpenDarwin does will help those projects as well.

    GNU-Darwin is totally insignificant, has virtually no support in the Macintosh community, and is let by someone with a warped view of reality. When it inevitably disappears, no one will care.