Hi. HNY. :-)

Disclaimer: this email is a non-flamewar. :-)

On Jan 2, 2008 1:11 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote:

> - KDE uses C++, which is not binary compatible across compilers.  This
>    causes more problems for Sun than other GNOME distros since Sun ships
>    its own Sun Studio compiler.  So, going with KDE adds complication in
>    that you either support just one compiler or you provide a set of
>    libraries built with all compilers you want to support (probably gcc
>    and Sun Studio are the most popular).

> There is a community working to make KDE available for
> Solaris/OpenSolaris.  I would imagine that Sun would consider accepting
> KDE into OpenSolaris if people were interested in going through the
> processes.  Based on our experience with GNOME, I'd imagine that getting
> KDE through ARC, and making sure it meets all OpenSolaris distribution
> requirements would be a fair bit of work, though.
>
>    http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/kde/
>    http://solaris.kde.org/

To these URL's i would add:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/kde/

We've put a lot of effort into building KDE3/4 + all its dependencies
with Sun Studio 12:

svn list http://svn2.cvsdude.com/kdesolaris/trunk/

and we are very close to having the full KDE dependency enchilada, and
KDE, working (check out the blogs on the KDE Project page @os.o, with
screenshots).

We (not the Royal We, just we KDE dudes) would glady ARC KDE. But
first, i think it would be better to have a working full KDE, so we
can show it off to PSARC and wow them. :-P

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman at gmail.com

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