[belenix-dev] Moving to ON b92 & KDE 4.0.4

[ken mays]

--- Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:18 AM, S h i v
> <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:57 PM, ken mays
> <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> What would hold us back from using ON b92 and KDE
> >> 4.0.4 for Belenix 0.7.1 ?!?
> >>
> >
> > Amount of work involved and time required.
> >
> >> I was thinking something like:
> >> 1. ON b92
> >> 2. KDE 4.0.4
> >> 3. Compiz 0.7.4
> >> 4. Nvidia driver 169.12 & Intel driver 2.3.0
> >>
> >> I'm willing to help... ;o)
> >>
> >
> > That would be awesome. Currently Manish has
> started on KDE4.
> >
> > Either end of first week or second week of June is
> what is being
> > thought of for 0.7.1
> > Having 0.7.1 is an opportunity to fix bugs, do
> some cleanup of the
> > current spec files, etc while the work for 0.8 is
> being done in
> > parallel.
> 
>    I am anyway looking at updating the ON build for
> 0.7.1 and a newer
>    Nvidia driver, but further new stuff like KDE4
> will be too much for a
>    maintenance release.
> 
> Regards,
> Moinak.
> 
> >
> > There will be a 0.8 in quick succession. That
> would be a more suitable
> > target for KDE4.
> >
> > -Shiv


Ok. I reviewed KDE 3.5.9 which would be easy to stick
in Belenix 0.7.1 as a maintenance/security fix to meet
the June deadline. Nothing major that would cause
additional manpower or overhead to do the update.

For Belenix 0.8, I'll work with Manish on KDE 4.1
(currently KDE 4.0.74) integration with GCC.

The other thing would just be an enhanced HD audio
framework moving forward to superceded Sun audio. I
will put in a request for 4front's OSS 4.0/4.1 as an
inclusion so we can integrate that with KDE 4.1. Let
me know if this can be added in the plans or to just
stick with Sun audio for now.

~ Ken