By RangerRick, on June 15th, 2006%
The KDE4/D-Bus stuff is starting to settle down, and it looks like trunk is starting to regularly build again. It’ll be worth seeing if it’s stabilized pretty soon.
Also, Peter O’Gorman, Torrey Lyons, and I have been working on getting X.org 7.1 building. Torrey committed a ton of fixes in the monolithic (6.9) tree to fix building with the GL and other changes that happened between 6.8 and 6.9. Now we’re trying to get all of that into the 7.x (modular) tree. I’ve got everything up to the X server packaged in my experimental tree and I’ve been playing with seeing how things do when built against it. Peter just got XDarwin.app building enough to start up, although it doesn’t work yet. Hopefully things will start working soon.
I’m taking this opportunity to work towards making X.org 7.x the “official” X11 of Fink. I’ve been doing some tests with mixed binaries (some libs linked against /usr/X11R6 and some against /sw/X11) with good results. Eventually, the goal is to transition all X11-using packages in Fink to link against the /sw/X11 tree, and let end-users have whatever X they want in /usr/X11R6 . . . → Read More: Updates Since May 19th
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By RangerRick, on June 3rd, 2006%
KDE 3.5.3 is in Fink unstable (10.3, 10.4-transitional, and 10.4). It looks like there’s an issue with kdenetwork3 building in 10.4-transitional, and a couple of people have reported some strange build errors in kdegraphics3 that I can’t reproduce, but other than that I think things are looking pretty good. There aren’t really any OSX-specific changes, but a few build system things have been cleaned up.
In other news, the D-Bus branch of kdelibs has officially moved to trunk. This means no more DCOP weirdness on Mac OS X. (yay!) I’ve put together updated versions of my (universal) KDE4 support binaries that include Qt 4.1.3 as well as D-Bus and it’s dependencies. Note that I don’t provide a CMake package anymore, you can get Mac OS X binaries from the CMake site.
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By RangerRick, on May 25th, 2006%
Looks like kdepim builds on kdelibs4 now!
I’m in the process of getting Qt/Mac 4.1.3 final (plus the KDE qt-copy patches) finished up for my binary packages, and then I’m going to start tooling up for trying out some more KDE/Mac stuff. It will take a little time to get all the DBus stuff sussed out on OSX.
At least there’s something interesting to try out; perhaps I can get KMail running.
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By RangerRick, on May 23rd, 2006%
I’ve released Fink packages for the recent PostgreSQL security update — they are available in unstable in the 10.3, 10.4-transitional, and 10.4 trees.
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By RangerRick, on May 19th, 2006%
There’s been quite a bit going on since my last Fink status update. Here’s what I’ve released since April 27th.
amaroK: I’ve rearranged the amaroK package (again), and updated it to 1.4. It’s still got a wrapper package (“amarok”) but now the core and the output engines are separate packages. Since the gstreamer engine was not deemed stable for the initial 1.4 release, the only engine that’s packaged is the xine engine, but eventually, you will have the choice of 1 or more engines to install on top of the amaroK core without needing variants.
GNUPG: I updated gnupg to 1.4.3, as well as gnupg-idea, which was long overdue for an update.
GStreamer: I finally did a big overhaul of the GStreamer packages. There’s now a wrapper package for all GStreamer 0.10 plugins (called “gst-plugins-0.10”), I’ve also finally finished up packaging gst-plugins-bad and gst-python. Also of note, gst-plugins-good-0.10 reintroduces the osxaudiosink, missing since 0.8, so you can get native audio again (instead of routing through the esound or SDL output plugins). The osxvideo sink is not quite as ready for primetime, so I’ve left it out still. Hopefully it’s coming soon.
. . . → Read More: Updates Since April 27th
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By RangerRick, on May 16th, 2006%
Looks like I’m lucky enough to have work send me to OSCON this year, in Portland, OR! (Yay!)
If you want to hang out, please drop me a line, it’d be cool to put some faces to names. And if you’re a SourceForge person and want to kill me now, well, I’ll be there for you too. 🙂
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By RangerRick, on May 10th, 2006%
So I used to think the folks at SourceForge were just overworked and under-appreciated. They’ve worked really hard recently to show me this is not the case. Sure, it’s a “free” service, but it’s there to sell their premium services, and they get a lot of exposure being the place to go for open-source development.
They’ve been having growing pains for a while; a few months ago, they had a major CVS outage. Open-source development the world around ground to a standstill for days while they worked to get hardware up. Since then, they’ve been planning on transitioning folks to subversion, and to a new CVS infrastructure. Did I mention that in the meantime, the anonymous CVS has been frozen and out-of-date since March? This outage was only “repaired” for developers; user access has been broken all this time.
Since then, we’ve been planning on moving to our own server (donated by xs4all). As you’ve seen in previous posts, I’ve made progress towards that end. In the meantime, our expectation was to get in on the “new CVS” beta. We’ve been preparing versions of Fink that can “phone home” to figure out . . . → Read More: SourceForge “Services”
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By RangerRick, on May 4th, 2006%
I’ve put up a new release of the universal Qt installer, based on the 4.1.3 20060503 snapshot. Qt-copy has moved to a 4.1.3 snapshot as well, so I figured I’d do that, at least, to keep up.
I’ve also been working on getting the KDE CMake stuff capable of doing universal binaries, but I’ve run into some strange issues with linking stuff mixed inside and outside of the /Developer/SDKs directories (even though everything I’m linking to should be universal). If anyone knows more about how that stuff works, please let me know. 🙂
On a related note, recently, Jos Boumans at xs4all got together a donated system for Fink, and I’ve been working on getting everything set up. We’re going to be working on moving services there as much as possible over the next weeks, to get away from SourceForge’s spotty performance. I’ve got LDAP and mail set up, and am working on bring other things up as time permits. Thanks for the hosting, Jos!
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By RangerRick, on May 1st, 2006%
So I’ve put universal Qt4 and “kdesupport” (for lack of a better term) packages up on kde.opendarwin.org now, in preparation for an attempt to start building (universal) KDE4 binary snapshots from the nightly and continuous builds of kdelibs. They install to /opt/qt4 and /opt/kde4-deps respectively.
This makes it even easier to start building the base of KDE/Mac and helping out in the porting effort. Feel free to hop in and starting trying to get it to build for yourself. The more the merrier!
Update:
I’ve also made a package for CMake as well now, you can get it at the KDE/Mac site too.
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By RangerRick, on April 30th, 2006%
I’ve released KDE 3.5.2 to the Fink 10.4 and 10.4-transitional trees. 10.3 is forthcoming, when I get my 10.3 test box back up. 🙂
The biggest changes are:
KDE 3.5.2 (duh) KOffice 1.5 uses unsermake for (most of) the packages, which gives a huge improvement on build times uses -fvisibility=hidden support for (most of) the packages, which gives a noticable improvement in speed
There are too many changes to list everything, see the KDE 3.5.2 and KOffice 1.5 pages for more info.
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