Of those ports you mention, I currently only have kchmviewer installed on my current machine, which I installed while testing different chm-viewing applications. I generally use the Chmox port for those purposes now though. I would still urge caution when removing/obsoleting the rest though, just in case. While kde3 may be old and in some cases broken, one advantage that it does have is a smaller installation footprint and does not take as long to compile. I have been leaving qt3 installed on my current machine for this reason for a while, so that its conflict with qt4-mac will prevent my machine from wasting time compiling qt4-mac, at least until I have more compile time available...
On 6/4/14, Nicolas Pavillon <ni...@macports.org> wrote: > Hello, > > This topic has been discussed some time ago on this mailing list without a > real conclusion, but I am again considering the status of KDE3 on Macports. > Considering that Qt5 is out and KDEF5 is soon to be released, it makes KDE3 > more and more obsolete. Furthermore, it seems to not build presently on the > later platforms (ticket #41136). I would therefore start considering making > the whole KDE3 suite gradually obsolete unless there is some opposition > after my mail. > Considering the existing ports, it seems to me that there are first some > dependents ports which could be dealt with (see list below), and then the > KDE3 suite itself which could be made obsolete in a second stage. I tried to > make below a list of the existing ports depending on kde3 that I hope to be > exhaustive, along with my opinion about their status. Of course, any opinion > is welcome about them. > My idea would be that in case all the ports below can be handled, I would > seriously consider to then make the whole kde3 suite obsolete too. > > Ports that can be replaced: > - kmymoney: can be replaced with kmymoney4 > - filelight: can be replaced with kde4-filelight > - kcachegrind: can be replaced with kcachegrind4 > - konversation11: can be replaced with konversation > > Ports without replacement: > - kchmviewer: still depends on qt3, possesses a variant for kde which is > said to be untested. The variant could be dropped in my opinion. > - klibido: appears to be not developed anymore since 2006. After 8 years, > the ports could be made obsolete. > - ndmanager: there was a notice announcing the passage to qt4 in mid-2013, > but no new development. Could be made obsolete. > - qalculate-kde: there is a new version for kde4, but I could not get it to > build. Even qalculate-gtk does not build presently on my platform. If the > build is not fixed, it could be made obsolete anyway. > > - koffice: This is a big piece of kde3, along with a whole bunch of language > ports. > There is a koffice2-devel port, but it has not been maintained at all > (nomaintainer). It still depends on the old kde4 1.0 portgroup, and fails at > the configure stage. As it is a non-working *-devel port, I would tend to > make it obsolete. > There is also a new submission request for calligra (ticket #37579), which > has not been submitted yet. I tested a little bit with the latest versions, > and I can get something partly working, so that a port commit could be > considered with what I have. For what I understand from a simplistic web > search, calligra seems more promising than koffice2 as a stable release > software. Koffice may then be set a replaced by calligra. > > From the list above, there could be some clean up which could be beneficial, > along with some ports which are clearly obsolete. Then, in the case all of > the above can be dealt with, it seems to me that kde3 could be set as > obsolete and replaced by kde4. However, this simplistic way of expressing it > does not consider the mess of ports in both architectures, so that a way of > making the transition should be thought of. > > Cheers, > > Nicolas > _______________________________________________ > macports-dev mailing list > macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev > _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev