Problems of KDE software on MacPorts

Why this page?

This page was initiated by ​this post on KDE-MAC and a PM discussion regarding ​Randa Meetings participation of MacPorts developers. It shall serve as a place to highlight certain KDE software related tickets which need special attention in order to bring the integration of KDE software on MacPorts forward.

Special maintainer/developer information - which is not covered in the KDE wiki page - could be gathered here.

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Tickets for specific KDE software issues

All ticket information has been moved to a dedicated page.

Wishlist for new KDE ports

It seems to be a good idea to have a common place to collect wishes for new ports of KDE applications.

For now the list is very short, but perhaps it is going to grow with time:

• ​KDE Telepathy - Real-Time Communication and Collaboration

Upcoming new version 4.13 of KDE applications

There are ongoing discussions on KDE-DEVEL about

• the upcoming replacement of nepomuk by baloo and
• ​options to disable baloo on OSX or reconfigure it in such a way that there is no interference with OSX' Spotlight

Continuous Integration of KDE software

KDE's developers are running a ​Jenkins-based CI system for the most of the KDE software. While this is already fully functioning for Linux a similar Windows-CI system is in a similar state to the idea of a CI system for KDE application on Mac(ports).

There is also a set of ​code-vetting software called English Breakfast Network (EBN, for short) which supports all developers in writing cleaner code and documentation.

The KDE community has plans to introduce CI of KDE software also on OSX. Currently there is an ongoing discussion on KDE-DEVEL about this. MacPort's key developers' expertise regarding the setup of their buildbots could perhaps be helpful for the KDE folks. On the other hand one might also run Jenkins on OSX and adapt its configuration to the KDE software's requirements.

Qt5 and KF5

The new Qt5 eventually leads to the new still-under-construction ​KDE Frameworks.

NOTE: At this stage there is not yet an official Qt5 port for MacPorts available due to lack of resources.

#37331 - Discussions about a possible portfile for qt5-mac

​homebrew-kf5 - Already existing recipies for KF5 on Homebrew

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Additional information

• MacPorts-Wiki
• KDE - Installing KDE applications with MacPorts
• ​KDE Techbase Wiki: Installing a development environment using MacPorts (somewhat outdated, still needs to be tested with current versions of OSX and KDE software)

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Resources at BitBucket (using Mercurial)

• ​Dedicated MacPorts tree for tests of KDE software
• ​Repository containing helpful environment and bash files for MacPorts users and port maintainers