Re: KDE 1.1 on debian/sparc
I'm not sure about the legal issues and all...but I have been keeping the kde debs uptto speed for both slink and potato. The maintainer hasn't been working on them in a while so I am working with him to get his stuff up to speed.
Currently only for i386 but I would like to be able to build this stuff on other systems (sparc) but just need a system that I (someone) is willing to install the -dev files after they are built in order to build the rest of the packages.
Ivan
(source files are available at http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/potato/rkrusty/source)
Ivan
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:15:31PM -0400, Tetchman@aol.com wrote:
> [repost: original sent on 27th.April, but had problems getting through]
> In a message dated 23/04/99 19:09:17, Steve Dunham wrote:
>
> > Rick Tan <Rick.Tan@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
> >
> >> Is KDE 1.1 available for debian/sparc? If so, where can one get the
> >> packages?
> >
> > I don't even think it's available for i386 at the moment. Aside from
> > not being free, it's not entirely clear whether it is legal to
> > distribute or not.
>
> My understanding is that it's completely legal to distribute, due
> to the Qt authors having announced an "open" style license (disagree ?). I
> think the issue is that the new license conditions don't quite tally with
> Debian's definition of "free".
>
> > Even if there were i386 packages, there probably wouldn't be any sparc
> > packages because of lack of resources and interest. (The sparc people
> > are busy compiling other things.)
>
> What - like X and Gnome ? I appreciate that the Sparc people are mucho busy,
> but I think there would be a *lot* of interest in KDE-for-Sparc. In
> particular, we'd be
> interested, as we run a Sparcstation 20 under Redhat-sparc 4.2 at work, and
> need to update to a more up-to-date Linux. I'm *really* hoping it will
> provide KDE for Sparc. The RH6.0 announcement does mention both KDE and Gnome.
>
> Of course, if Sparc Slink were production-ready, I'd rather go with that
> (that's why I read this list), but it doesn't seem to be. Am I wrong ?
>
> I don't have the skills to help out, so I'm afraid I'm just lurking here.
>
> > There are, however, some gnome 1.0 packages, which took a bit of
> > effort to compile. I encourage everyone .. [snip]
>
> Everyone seems to be saying Gnome 1.0 has been a bit premature ...
>
> Not being a tad partisan here are we ?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick Boyce
> Bristol, UK
>
>
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