From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 03:07:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0BD106564A for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:07:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02E418FC21 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O5ViO-0002GC-Lr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:07:32 +0200 Received: from pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net ([71.166.133.192]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:07:32 +0200 Received: from nightrecon by pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:07:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org connect(): No such file or directory From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:10 -0400 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20100423183944.GA27509@muon.cran.org.uk> <201004231751.52462.lumiwa@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-166-133-192.washdc.east.verizon.net Subject: Re: KDE 4.4.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:07:36 -0000 ajtiM wrote: > On Friday 23 April 2010 13:39:44 Bruce Cran wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 07:58:12PM +1200, Andrew Hill wrote: >> > Hi does anyone know if kde 4.4.2 is in freebsd ports? >> >> It's not yet - a big upgrade to Xorg and KDE is being worked on so I >> guess it'll be available in a few days. >> > ...and again my question: why upgrade on 4.4.2 after two months if 4.4.3 > coming out in the end of the month?? The version 4.4 was out in February > 9th! > Because the release of this software on FreeBSD does not happen on the same day as KDE releases it. It has to be patched and ported by people who are volunteering their free time. These patches are needed to make compiling and running KDE on FreeBSD a worthwhile experience. This takes time. A lot of third party apps are not as 100% portable as they could be, and many contain a lot of 'Linuxisms' which need to be adjusted out. So do not look at the release dates on the KDE site and think that because KDE x.y.z is released by KDE on xx somemonth that it will magically appear in the FreeBSD ports immediately. This stuff has to be patched first. -Mike