Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:42:26AM -0400, Mike Small wrote: > I can think of some people who would consider that a great gatekeeper > for the profession: everyone has to write his or her own compiler > for all the coding they do. With enough time on my hands, sure, why not ? But that's a main issu

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-17 Thread Mike Small
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:18:21PM +0900, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: > 2010/3/16 Marc Espie : ... > > the "C++ is crap, everything that matters should be written in C" > > mentality. ... > clang+LLVM is barely able of bootstrapping itself while already > generating highly optimized code for C and O

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
2010/3/16 Marc Espie : > Of course, it makes it completely impossible to hack on KDE if you're in > the "C++ is crap, everything that matters should be written in C" mentality. > (in fact, KDE is probably the biggest example of readable C++ code I give > to people. Doesn't hurt that it follows on t

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO
> Java, on the other hand, from my limited experience trying to tutor > someone in it, *is* crap :) [Well, that's probably too harsh, but it > did give me a headache and RSI from all the damn typing.] People claim Java is portable, when it's not. And a lot of java programs use proprietary libra

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread Corey
On 03/16/2010 03:40 AM, Marc Espie wrote: Well, most of their stuff does work on... windows these days. How non-portable is that ? Seriously, the issues about hal and policykit only impact you if you want kde as a full desktop with all sysadmin. For most of us, who actually only care about kde

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > KDE cares in so far as they accept patches and would welcome a developer > that targets OpenBSD. I know because I've talked to some of them on IRC. > > There's however no effort to do it themselves or even set up a testbox > to make s

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-16 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:19:41PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > > > old. are there any future

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Marc Espie wrote: >> You're totally mistaken. >> >> KDE cares about the BSDs, and they're very much no-nonsense people. >> I had absolutely no difficulty getting an account with them, nor with >> folding back portable patches I had to make things work

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Marc Espie wrote: > You're totally mistaken. > > KDE cares about the BSDs, and they're very much no-nonsense people. > I had absolutely no difficulty getting an account with them, nor with > folding back portable patches I had to make things work on OpenBSD. > > The main reas

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 03:19:41PM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > > old. are there any future plans to update kde4? > > > > Regards, > > Donald Cooley > > http:

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Brad Tilley wrote: > > Actually, KDE only cares about Linux. > > The isfinite() issue? That's C99 and POSIX stuff, right? Or are you guys > talking about something else? OpenBSD does have a log2() (unlike FreeBSD > 7.x) even though you can get there by doing log()/log(2). I'

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:56 -0400, "Brad Tilley" wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:27 +0100, "Antoine Jacoutot" > wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is n

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:27 +0100, "Antoine Jacoutot" wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > > > old. are there any future plans to update kd

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > > old. are there any future plans to update kde4? > > > > Regards, > > Donald Cooley > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=k

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote: > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > old. are there any future plans to update kde4? > > Regards, > Donald Cooley http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&w=2&r=1&s=openbsd&q=b KDE doesn't give a fuck abo

Re: kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Anton Karpov
Sure. Everybody is waiting for your patches :-) 2010/3/15 Donald Cooley > openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years > old. are there any future plans to update kde4? > > Regards, > Donald Cooley

kde4 dead?

2010-03-15 Thread Donald Cooley
openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years old. are there any future plans to update kde4? Regards, Donald Cooley