On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 3:18:59 PM CET Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > Hi Ian and everyone else, > > On 1 December 2015 at 10:40, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Now let me tell you this. > > > > I am not going to stand any of this "official policy" rubbish. Who do you > > think you are? You are writing from a position of ignorance when it > > comes to implementing KDE software on Apple OS X, as indeed are most of > > the KDE core developers I have encountered in the last year or two. > > I may be speaking from a position of ignorance as to what's possible > on the platform and what users of the platform want, but I'm not > speaking from a position of ignorance when I state what the priorities > of the current crop of KDE developers are. > > KDE's tier one platforms are currently Linux/BSD/any UNIX where you > can run the full Plasma experience with shared packages, etc. In fact, > we even run in degraded mode on non-Linux platforms because Systemd > and Udev aren't available on such platforms, which are two > technologies we make good use of. > > The developers' priority is to always deliver the best possible > experience on these tier 1 platforms.
This is not fully true. For the desktop (repo kde/workspace) you describe it correctly. For applications and (generic) frameworks: we consider all platforms equally. Given that: we do encourage efforts to get our software on more and also on closed platforms. The discussion we had lately were mostly about the non-generic frameworks where we seem to have different views on what should be provided on OSX. My view is that any framework which only exists for Plasma should not be available on other platforms at all, while Rene mostly comes from an approach to offer everything to provide ultimate choice. Cheers Martin
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