Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-11 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Scarlett, On 12 Dec 2015, at 00:51 , Scarlett Clark wrote: > +1 here. > > I am still not convinced a pure OSX environment is going to work. Regardless, > it is going to be quite > awhile that it is going to be ready to provide binaries. Macports and all > other ports are going to be > need

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-11 Thread Scarlett Clark
+1 here. I am still not convinced a pure OSX environment is going to work. Regardless, it is going to be quite awhile that it is going to be ready to provide binaries. Macports and all other ports are going to be needed to fill that void until then. Please everyone work together to keep these goin

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-11 Thread Marko Käning
Dear Boudhayan, Luca and all, On 02 Dec 2015, at 07:21 , Ian Wadham wrote: > On 01/12/2015, at 8:00 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote: >> Personally I think that CI and code review has actually improved KDE >> software quite a bit, > > I believe you. Actually Marko Käning (another Macports-based develop

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-11 Thread Marko Käning
Dear Ian, On 01 Dec 2015, at 06:10 , Ian Wadham wrote: > By "half-baked and unusable" do you mean a Help->Report Bug... menu item > that does not respond, a KCrash that itself crashes, a DrKonqi that does not > run > and does not produce a crash-report, an application that does not load its >

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Boudhayan and everyone else, On 01/12/2015, at 8:48 PM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 1 December 2015 at 10:40, Ian Wadham wrote: >> In my experience, the only way to solve the problems with KDE software, >> as implemented on Apple OS X, is to institute day-to-day co-operation >> between a small

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Ian Wadham
Hi Luca and everyone else, On 01/12/2015, at 8:00 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:10:37 +1100, Ian Wadham ha scritto: > > Hello Ian, > >> between a small number of MacPorts and KDE developers, not "policies", >> patches, reviews and endless email threads. That small group shou

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi, On 1 December 2015 at 15:37, Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 3:18:59 PM CET Boudhayan Gupta wrote: >> 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

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Martin Graesslin
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 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 f

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
Hi Ian and everyone else, On 1 December 2015 at 10:40, Ian Wadham 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 App

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-12-01 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:10:37 +1100, Ian Wadham ha scritto: Hello Ian, > between a small number of MacPorts and KDE developers, not "policies", > patches, reviews and endless email threads. That small group should ask Just one small point: IMO reviews are *essential* to ensure that what works i

Re: Apple OS X Patches for KDE Software (was MacPorts Patches).

2015-11-30 Thread Ian Wadham
a > goal of running a full Plasma session on any such platform (or even > attempt to package-managerise KDE on such platforms). But this is a > community, and it should be left to decide what it wants on its own. > That said, we should really lay down official policy soon before > di

Re: MacPorts Patches

2015-11-30 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Monday 30 November 2015 17:23:45 Thomas Lübking wrote: > On Montag, 30. November 2015 17:03:01 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: > > There have been various OSX patches being created against the > > kde-workspace > > repository in the past. So yeah, it seems to be part of what they want to > > achie

Re: MacPorts Patches

2015-11-30 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 30. November 2015 17:03:01 CEST, Martin Graesslin wrote: There have been various OSX patches being created against the kde-workspace repository in the past. So yeah, it seems to be part of what they want to achieve. I doubt it makes sense to run plasma-desktop/kwin/plasmashell on O

Re: MacPorts Patches

2015-11-30 Thread Martin Graesslin
e opinion that we shouldn't be admitting invasive > > MacPorts/Fink (or even KDE on Windows) patches that attempt to reach a > > goal of running a full Plasma session on any such platform (or even > > attempt to package-managerise KDE on such platforms). But this is a > &

Re: MacPorts Patches

2015-11-30 Thread Jeremy Whiting
> MacPorts/Fink (or even KDE on Windows) patches that attempt to reach a > goal of running a full Plasma session on any such platform (or even > attempt to package-managerise KDE on such platforms). But this is a > community, and it should be left to decide what it wants on its own. >

MacPorts Patches

2015-11-30 Thread Boudhayan Gupta
own. That said, we should really lay down official policy soon before discussing the current MacPorts patches any further, because pretty much every thread is devolving into heated arguments that's taking up developer time as well as making them feel not happy. Yours, Boudhayan Gupta >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<