Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 12:12:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: Aaron Granick <agranick@ucsd.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nasty problem to compile kirc-0.9.5-04 under FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990425120634.11595A-100000@fish.hooked.net> In-Reply-To: <19990425123211.B86837@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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> Perhaps this is the result of what you said, Alex, that > kirc perhaps really needs an older KDE version and an > older QT lib. Unfortunately we dropped the older QT version > in the FreeBSD ports collection, since no application seemed > to use/need it. During that time (when the decision has been > made), kirc already was flagged BROKEN, because of the compilation > errors .... Yes, this is pretty much where I gave up and began working on other KDE related tasks (namely the kioslaves). For whatever reason it does need Qt 1.33, or else. If you go earlier than that, you run into problems with the QSocketNotifiers, later, and it won't start up. > Now for me the question arises, if we should bring back qt1.33 > and try it again to compile kirc ... or if not. > > Sad but true ... as far as I see kirc seems to be a little > so to say -> unmaintained ... Personally, while I'll happily field any bugreports and patches and soon, I think there are better clients out there. kvirc and keirc both have somewhat similar interfaces. And yes, there is ksirc, but uh, personally, I wouldn't recommend it, but it's worth looking at. > To sum it up ... what do _YOU_ think would be a good decision > for kirc in the FreeBSD ports collection ??? > > Or is there any taker, who could perhaps bring kirc to libqt 1.42 > and KDE 1.1 ? [ Cc'd to ports ] I'd say delete it, remove it, be done with it. But, if someone really wants to invest all that energy in fixing it to work with KDE 1.1 (actually KDE and Qt 2.0 might be a better goal), more power to them. I can't speak for Aaron, but if anyone has a set of patches that will let kIRC run, I'd be more than happy to try them out and organize them. But if they have that much time, I'd be suprised if they didn't want to maintain/organize kIRC themselves. - alex You better believe that marijuana can cause castration. Just suppose your girlfriend gets the munchies! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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