KDE 4.2 and FreeBSD 6.4 Support

[Masoom Shaikh]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:

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> Howdy Guys,
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> KDE 4.2 is more or less ready for testing, but we have some
> open tasks before we will officially call for testing. We would
> like to know how many people are still using KDE4 on FreeBSD 6.4?
> We are considering dropping support for 6.x.
>
> Let me explain.
>
> First of all it is sad to say, but currently there are only 2
> people who actively work on KDE4. It is _really_ hard work to
> get KDE4 ready for FreeBSD. Also it is getting harder to build
> KDE4 with gcc 3.x. Of couse if somebody want to support KDE4
> on 6.x you are welcome to our team! Try to compile KDE, make
> patches and push them upstream! So, in order to move forward
> we may have to drop 6.x support. We just don't have the manpower
> to build multiple versions.
>
> Ok, enough for the moment. What do you think about
> 6.4 support?
>
> - - Martin
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making kde4 depend on gcc4.x an option for 6.4 ?