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We'd like to inform you all that area51 trunk is now featuring Qt 4.8. While it should be working (yet untested, feedback welcome), we suggest you not to test it along with KDE SC 4.7, as it won't work fine.
The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.3 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.
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The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.7.2 for FreeBSD. We invite you to read the original announcement.
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What’s keeping KDE 4.7 still out of FreeBSD? Well, the high number of tarballs (and thus ports) in which it was split for this release. Actually they’re not too much, but they require a deep scan to update dependencies. We’ll probably be ready for a Call for tests in few days, and we would even like to provide test packages to make the process easier and get more feedback!
KDE PIM 4.7 will also be available, but it probably won’t be ready to be committed along with other ports.
What a big set of updates the one committed today by kde@! We are pleased to announce: Qt 4.7.2; PyQt4 4.8.3; KDE SC 4.6.1, featuring an improved ksysguardd on its own (sysutils/ksysguardd, with no dependencies) that can be used for remote monitoring of systems; KOffice 2.3.1 (yes, further upgrade of this is planned); KDevelop 4.2.0; a few other ports you’re probably not interested in, but that you really want to upgrade.
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The KDE/FreeBSD team is receiving assistance from PC-BSD again. During last months things have gone a bit slowly: the main problem was we missed a package build system. Luckily, miwi@ managed to find a solution with Kris Moore’s help, and now we’re back on full speed.
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