From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 24 12:28:39 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 4B2C0106566B for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lumiwa@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f211.google.com (mail-gx0-f211.google.com [209.85.217.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0314B8FC22 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so5158449gxk.13 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:28:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=svxptoU/JTTX9Lpdl4iVCi8JH1S6uCXTtVWCLsn3ZK4=; b=kBMKBJm7xxdbFWIWVZ6V+dHKfSUDKlRwhqMLiqv7WzPdymqaNzOO1MS4bPKL5k7WMj G2MOkEWqfuiMZ+7hr57bKGuIw5Cd5YuYdez6jTKUKNQBhrnseBgs58Gy5Q3m6A5RLOik eUp1r9NyhuD3B7XsGyllJkxcQb69fMHDxfiVQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=PbIbfAhT8cvi7y/4dK1oCjWKJN2iZ9+XrVliAzvv8EfmaQ5iD2RtW3Kf+Yw3LiVJgk kQDdVz+kieh83S1PQ8xnGu0LP3liA4+AAUpSvhTHDiqPZ0ur1pVCxJLj7Gy2SDHaFW0m HUO+w7WhM55AseT5nCnxePiJRlzA9Bq+XRN/Q= Received: by 10.151.3.3 with SMTP id f3mr1481903ybi.117.1272112115897; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:28:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.wi.rr.com (CPE-65-29-60-73.wi.res.rr.com [65.29.60.73]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 20sm1463942iwn.5.2010.04.24.05.28.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:28:35 -0700 (PDT) From: ajtiM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:28:27 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.3.5; i386; ; ) References: <201004231751.52462.lumiwa@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004240728.27841.lumiwa@gmail.com> Cc: 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 12:28:39 -0000 On Friday 23 April 2010 22:10:00 Michael Powell wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I understand it but advertisement was not on KDE site but on the FreeBSD KDE site. Mitja -------- http://starikarp.redbubble.com