[oiac-discuss] OpenIndiana and KDE Solaris

[Guido Berhoerster]

I'm adding in oiac-discuss at openindiana.org since this might be of
interest to others.

* Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> [2010-11-16 23:01]:
> On Friday, November 12, 2010 08:56:06 pm Pavel Heimlich, a.k.a. hajma wrote:
> > >> > - need to support nv134
> > >> > - and OI releases
> > >> > - must use Studio 12
> > >> > - must use stdcxx4
> > >> > - might (to help out Belenix) want a switch for gcc
> > 
> > I'd be more skeptical about adding support for gcc, it'd quite add to
> > the already serious complexity of build flags we have.
> 
> There's a discussion going on as to whether we want to continue to support 
> nv134. I think it's clear that gcc support isn't in the cards given our 
> available time budget.

If you're open for collaboration maybe Belenix members (who are
aiming for a gcc toolchain) might be interested to add
gcc-support to the existing packages?

> > +1, we already do have a history of separating stable repository
> > clones, so the cooperation could be as easy as sending one extra
> > e-mail.
> 
> As an example, our stable repository -- well, I am still fiddling with it a 
> little but it's stable enough -- is [1] and the packages for it are at [2]. 
> The specs are world-writable if you clone over https. There's a kde4-specs-460 
> for future work, where we would welcome help in both renaming packages and in 
> handling OI dependency names better.
> 
> [ade]
> 
> 
> [1] http://solaris.bionicmutton.org/hg/kde4-specs-450
> [2] http://solaris.bionicmutton.org/pkg/4.5.3//en/index.shtml

I would hope that we could later find a few individuals (maybe
also people from Belenix) willing to maintain KDE packages in OI
and feed back such fixes.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster