KDE in GoboLinux - has KDE become more difficult?

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Hello GoboFolks in general,

Since a while I am wondering about QT and KDE in general.

The old folks may remember that GoboLinux used to come with KDE on board,
like in the old days,
2004 or something. This was in theKDE 3 area. I remember that I myself was
able to compile qt3
and kde3 stuff (kde-libs, kde-baseand so on) quite easily on non-gobolinux
systems as well.

Then came the switch to cmake, qt4, and kde4 and things became a lot more
difficult, at the
least for me. Now we have qt5 and kde5 and ... plasma... kde-apps 17.0.x
something. To be
honest I lost track. You can find about 200-300 individual .tar.xz files in
total now for kde + kde
plasma and many ofthem aren't so trivial to set up or get to compile -
thanks to cmake again
IMO. In my opinion at the least, or my experience.

So my question here is, and I want to keep this fairly short:

 - Has the way how the KDE project changed over the years, made things
harder to work
with for gobolinux developers in general, or is the primary reason just
something more
mundane such as lack of time?

I am asking in particular because a while ago on slashdot, there also were
several other
people who said that kde 3 was the last great KDE and things have decayed
past this
point onward. And I wondered if that was something that may also be a
reason why gobolinux
may not come with KDE. If things would be more easy, would kde be also
packaged?

I am asking here in particular because I think that I could eventually
autogenerate valid
gobolinux recipes, perhaps by the end of the year (I have to improve on the
code and
look for corner cases or more complicated programs, but simple recipes I
should be able
to autogenerate ... I am currently tracking close to 3000 programs and
wrote a small
script that tells me which gobo-recipes I am missing yet... I'll keep on
adding missing
ones over the next ~weeks).

Regards,
Robert

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v><div>Hello GoboFolks in general,<br><br></div>Since a while I am wonderin=
g about QT and KDE in general.<br><br></div>The old folks may remember that=
 GoboLinux used to come with KDE on board, like in the old days,</div><div>=
2004 or something. This was in theKDE 3 area. I remember that I myself was =
able to compile qt3</div><div>and kde3 stuff (kde-libs, kde-baseand so on) =
quite easily on non-gobolinux systems as well.<br></div></div><br></div>The=
n came the switch to cmake, qt4, and kde4 and things became a lot more diff=
icult, at the<br></div>least for me. Now we have qt5 and kde5 and ... plasm=
a... kde-apps 17.0.x something. To be<br></div>honest I lost track. You can=
 find about 200-300 individual .tar.xz files in total now for kde + kde</di=
v><div>plasma and many ofthem aren&#39;t so trivial to set up or get to com=
pile - thanks to cmake again</div><div>IMO. In my opinion at the least, or =
my experience.</div></div><div><br></div>So my question here is, and I want=
 to keep this fairly short:<br><br></div>=C2=A0- Has the way how the KDE pr=
oject changed over the years, made things harder to work<br></div>with for =
gobolinux developers in general, or is the primary reason just something mo=
re</div><div>mundane such as lack of time?</div><div><br></div><div>I am as=
king in particular because a while ago on slashdot, there also were several=
 other</div><div>people who said that kde 3 was the last great KDE and thin=
gs have decayed past this</div><div>point onward. And I wondered if that wa=
s something that may also be a reason why gobolinux</div><div>may not come =
with KDE. If things would be more easy, would kde be also packaged?</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>I am asking here in particular because I think that I cou=
ld eventually autogenerate valid</div><div>gobolinux recipes, perhaps by th=
e end of the year (I have to improve on the code and</div><div>look for cor=
ner cases or more complicated programs, but simple recipes I should be able=
</div><div>to autogenerate ... I am currently tracking close to 3000 progra=
ms and wrote a small</div><div>script that tells me which gobo-recipes I am=
 missing yet... I&#39;ll keep on adding missing</div><div>ones over the nex=
t ~weeks).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Robert<br></div>=
</div></div>

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