KDE 3.5 status?

[Ian Moore]

On Friday 16 December 2005 02:11, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Thursday 15 December 2005 09:18, Louis J. LeBlanc wrote:
> > Perhaps here:
> > http://freebsd.kde.org/
>
> Nothing there...
>
> > Try updating your ports directory, and if it's not there, you might try
> > the port maintainer.
>
> ...and it's not in ports yet.  I'd rather the maintainer be spending his
> time on the port than answer my emails, so I'll go back to waiting
> patiently.

Latest news from the kde-freebsd list:

> Porting is progressing, but slowly (for a number of technical and
> non-technical reasons).
> 
> It is possible that we might end up skipping KDE 3.5 completely and go
> with KDE 3.5.1 when it's released - judging from what problems have
> surfaced during porting already and the steady stream of bugs being
> discovered on other platforms which already ship KDE 3.5, it seems that
> this release might just not be worth the trouble.

According to an earlier post, Michael (the port maintainer) has been sick and 
was only able to start work on it a few days after the release date. It looks 
like this release is going to be a lot slower than normal.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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