note on further KDE on cygwin development
Ralf Habacker <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:53:15 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.cygwin |
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Hi all, in the last time there were some exiting and faster alternatives to the KDE on cygwin port in using colinux (http://www.colinux.org) and xming (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Xming) the win32 based X-Server. Because they provide are much easier way to run KDE application on windows, I thought about the sense of the KDE on cygwin port, especially because a native KDE 4 port to windows is not far away. The result of this thoughs are that I will stop further development of the kde-cygwin port because of: - a side effect of the the ongoing transition to KDE 4 is that the releases kde svn is partial unstable (for example the autotool build system), which require much more work to fix, I unfortunally don't have. - there are trademark issues (initiated by trolltech) about the gpl'ed native qt3-port, which makes further development for me personally somewhat unsecure. (I hope that this effects noone other working on the native qt3 port) - The required time of porting and supporting the KDE on cygwin port may be better used helping the KDE 4 windows port. As summary I think that KDE on cygwin and the native gpl'ed qt3 port had opened a wide door for getting a native KDE 4 on windows. But as anything in this limited world has it's live time, KDE on cygwin' live time seems to be over. I like to thank all who had contributed to this project and worked hard to make it possible. Everytime I think about what was reached, i'm very impressed how the open source movement works. -- Keep up the good work. Ralf