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So along with some other folks, I was laid off from my job at Raritan today. Although I’m disappointed to be leaving a stellar group of people to work with, I’m heartened by the outpouring of commiseration (and job offers!) from everyone. Thank you so much! If you know of anything interesting for a Perl/Java/Mac/Open-Source/Geek kind of person, let me know. And check out my resume while you’re at it. 😉 Share on FacebookSo I’ve been sitting on this for some time while I made the plans, but it is now officially official, I’m going to be speaking at aKademy 2007 in Glasgow! I’m really looking forward to meeting all the folks I’ve only talked to in IRC before and really get a chance to hang out with the amazing KDE developer community. If you’d like to get together, just drop me a line and we’ll figure something out. Share on FacebookFirst of all, I released a new snapshot of KDE/Mac on the KDE4/Mac site. These include support for the phonon-xine plugin, and sound in Amarok (and presumably other things that use phonon) now works! Unfortunately, the collections code seems to have issues, so no collections yet. 🙁 Second, I finally got KDE/X11 3.5.6 out the door in Fink unstable, along with KOffice 1.6.2. Nothing mac-specific changed, just the new features discussed in the upstream announcements. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please let me know! Share on FacebookLast night I finished a new build of KDE/Mac which includes Amarok, building on the great work the Amarok team’s done on Amarok 2.0 porting. In theory, sound should work (I’ve added GStreamer and kdemultimedia’s phonon-gst backend to the mix) but in practice it doesn’t. Now that I have a solid build working, I’m going to try digging into figuring out why that is the case. As always, please bang on it, and let me know if you see any major issues. Also, I’ve started working on packaging kde4 for fink. For now it is the X11 version, but as I get things cleaned up, I’ll add the Qt/Mac version to the mix. I’ll put a note up when there’s something useful along those lines… Share on FacebookFYI, I put out a new KDE/Mac snapshot a few days ago. Nothing major other than refreshing with the latest SVN and adding oKular into the build. It looks like something’s wrong with plugin-loading, though, oKular can’t find any file plugins. I’ll look into getting it fixed soon, and see if we can get oKular actually opening documents. 😉 I stand corrected, I must have run kbuildsycoca on one machine but started it up on another. =) And to prove it… Share on FacebookSo there was a little bitrot since my last packaging run in November, but I’ve finally managed to get a new KDE build done. If you’re downloading in pieces, Qt and kdesupport have been updated too, so make sure you grab them as well as whatever else you’re looking to install. It looks like starting from the Finder works again, so my patches haven’t totally rotted, and one big new thing is working — input methods! Unfortunately, SSL is still not happy, I’ve not had a chance to investigate yet. Otherwise, though, things are looking up. Please give them a shot and let me know if you run into any issues, and if you’re willing to help out, join us on irc, in #kde-darwin on freenode. Share on FacebookWhen I went to OSCON 2006, I ran into Alex Russell of dojo and sitepen fame. He mentioned that they used Fink a lot (especially KDE) and wanted to help out. Yesterday, I was walking out the door to head to work, and the doorbell rang. Fresh from the FedEx guy was a nice shiny new core duo 2 mac mini! I’ve got it configured to the point that I can use it, and now need to get my KDE stuff building on it. This should cut the time it takes to build KDE down to the order of hours instead of days… (Even with distcc, it took 4 or 5 days to do a full build from qt up on my laptop.) Thanks again! Share on FacebookI’ve been working on packages and catching up on quite a bit of stuff for a while now, but hadn’t gotten around to posting about it, so I guess it’s time to do so. 🙂 I’ve got some more coming down the line — a big reworking of the PostgreSQL packages (including 8.2) as well as a few other things. At that point, I should actually be reasonably caught up. Big Updates: KDE: finally got 3.5.5 out the door. Mostly just version bumps, although I did add some code to allow you to easily disable quartz-wm for clipboard synchronization (in some cases, folks were seeing quartz-wm hog memory with a huge leak). You can do so by adding export DISABLE_PROXY=1 in your .xinitrc before you run startkde. Mono: various Mono updates, including a number of compile fixes and stuff. Everything (but MonoDevelop, as always) works now on OSX. Yay! Other Stuff: amanith: new package (vector graphics library) amarok: updated to 1.4.4 commons-configuration: updated to 1.3 commons-digester: updated to 1.8 commons-discovery: updated to 0.4 commons-jxpath: new package (XPath interpreter) commons-lang: updated to 2.2 commons-modeler: updated . . . → Read More: Updates Since Um… A Long Time Ago Share on FacebookI’ve put out a new D-Bus package for Fink with the official 1.0 release. It’s been sitting in my experimental tree for a while but it seems to be pretty solid and I never heard back from the previous maintainer. If you are using anything that wants D-Bus, please let me know how it works out. Also, while I haven’t really had any time to do real development on it, I did kick off a new build of the KDE/Mac binaries and put them up on the web site — please let me know if you run into any issues. Share on FacebookIt looks like some of the kde4 build issues have been fixed, I was able to complete an unassisted run of the KDE/Mac build. New binaries are up and Konqueror and other complex stuff runs again. Dirk is putting out a 3.80.2 Krash release too, and this will pretty closely correspond to that release. I’ll do another build when 3.80.2 is finalized. There’s already 3 seeders, so feel free to give the torrents a shot and let me know how things work. Share on Facebook |
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