On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 10:10:13PM +0000, John Gay scrawled: > On Tue 31 Dec 2002 17:06, Brad Felmey wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 22:36, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > This is an insult to Chris and everyone else working on KDE. > > > > I don't see it that way at all. Chris has 1,001 reasons why there's no > > packages available, while all around others are accomplishing it. > > Personally, I think Chris, Daniel, Ben and all the others have done GREAT > work! Chris has made his reasons clear and I applaud him for not poluting the > Debian directories with many in-compatible versions. I haven't really done a thing. :) > Of course Others have provided various stop-gap measures to provide some > semblance of KDE3 to those who really want it and are willing to take the > hits that go with the teritory. > > Unfortunately, this is starting to sound like the same arguements that came > up when imlib broke KDE2.x and Ivan realized that maintaining KDE was taking > away too much of his time. libpng, but yeah. > Of course now we have a slightly different situation. There are many people > working together to see the KDE3.1 and GCC3.2 merge into Debian with minimal > trouble. In addition, we have others working to provide various intermedeate > versions of KDE3.x based on whatever GCC is currently available. > > For myself, I have decided NOT to follow either set of KDE packages and live > with KDE2.2.2 I was bitten several times during the last major upgrade and > don't understand the Debian way of building enough to get myself out of > trouble, therefore I just wait until it's official before I upgrade. > > Having said that, I still think EVERYONE deserves many thanks for the work > they have put in. Both Chris's team working on the official packages, and the > people working on hte not-so-official packages! Both efforts are enormous. > Thank you to everyone! The not-so-official packages generally have some resemblance to the official packages; they're generally branched from CVS. > Myself, I'm working up my courage to re-build my system from scratch once the > KDE3.1 sources are released. Call my crazy, call me a masochist, just don't > call me late for dinner ;-) Yea, I'm rebuilding mine now, it sucks. > Thank you to everyone and have a Happy New Year! You too! Daniel, from rainy Melbourne, Australia where it's 9:53am and thus FAR too early to be at work. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@raging.dropbear.id.au> <dstone@kde.org> Developer - http://kopete.kde.org, http://www.kde.org
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