September 2005 Archives

...if you've been watching #kde-devel or #bksys, I've been working on helping ita and coolo (and others) work on bksys, in the hopes that we can make it happy with Mac OS X, and thus pick up porting KDE4 to Qt/Mac again.

I've got things to the point where they link, although bksys still has some very large deficiencies in support for the fundamental differences between OSX and other unixes.

I *think* tiger's dynamic loader is to the point where I can ignore the "everything's a dylib" issue for now, but there's still much to clean up.

If you're interested in helping out, drop by #kde-darwin and/or #bksys, and check the kde-nonlinux mailing list to keep up to date.

Been making some good progress on getting KDE 3.4 to stable. If you're interested in seeing what all needs to be moved, you can check the KDE Packaging Progress page on the Fink Wiki.

As for packaging, I've got qt3 updated to 3.3.5. It turns out it has the annoying attribute of actually honoring the <includehint> entries in .ui files and is causing some of KDE to break. I'm working my way through all of the KDE packages to fix the bad .ui files now and should have them all cleaned up soon.

In the meantime, if you're building KDE and have failures, revert to qt 3.3.4 and try again.

Been doing a lot more to catch up on my Fink packages (and updates to a few that aren't mine) and have been working on getting KDE 3.4.2 cleaned up in unstable.

• amarok: updated to 1.3.1

• boo: updated to 0.6

• bundle-kde*: lots of cleanups to fix upgrades

• cairo: updated to 1.0

• glitz: fixed a minor libtool library issue

• gstreamer & gst-plugins: updated to 0.8.11, modernized dependencies (libshout2, etc.)

• kde/koffice i18n: fixed download issues

• kdeaddons3: made a kdeaddons3 package (which includes kpackage and a few other misc. utilities)

• kdepim3: really fix the kaddressbook/kmail crash this time (by using gpgme's pthread implementation, instead of pth)

• libbonobo2 & libbonoboui2: updated to 2.10.1

• libcapsinetwork: updated to 0.3.0 (to go along with monopd 0.9.3)

• md5deep: new package, MD5/SHA1/etc. tool

• monodevelop: fix building against Boo 0.6

• monopd: updated to 0.9.3

• pbzip2: multi-cpu-aware version of bzip2

• system-openssl-dev: put some info in the package description on how to use it