All the interesting parts of KDE 4.2.0 are now in macports. A port search kde4 on my machine says there are 21 ports available: digikam, digikampluskipi-latest, digikampluskipi-svn, kdebase4, kdebase4-runtime, kdeedu-svn, kdeedu4, kdegames4, kdegraphics-svn, kdegraphics4, kdelibs4, kdemultimedia4, kdenetwork4, kdepim4, kdepimlibs4, kdesdk4, kdeutils4, koffice2-devel, ktorrent, phonon and qimageblitz. There is also amarok and amarok-devel which for some reason wasn't listed by the command above. Executing that particular command on my machine is a bit misleading though. The digikam and -svn portfiles aren't actually in macports. Those belong to a separate private repo. I was planning on using it to create digikam portfiles but I got busy and lost interest. Maybe someday.

Even better than just being in macports though; they compile without issue if you happen to be blessed with Xcode's gcc 4.2. Notice I said compile, not run. The latter will get taken care of by packages, trips to irc channels, or reading messages printed out after installation. This means that part one of my awesome plan has now been realized.

And speaking of plans, having gone back to that e-mail, it seems I actually had a plan or some sort of roadmap when I started out with all this. Poor, young idealistic fool. Makes me wonder what other hidden gems are lying around here. It looks like I missed my 4.1 deadline as I'm just now starting on some parts of Coordinate. I won't hold that against me though. This was right around the time I got my job and was moving, so real life concerns became more concerning :-) At least I got most of the goals in all the others done, right?

I've forgotten where I was going with all this. Finding that page made me lose my train of thought. It was gonna be really good too. Meh. It's late and I gotta go to bed. Oh, I worked on this over the weekend so we're much closer to KDE on OS 10.4 through macports.

Oh! I remember. Heh. Ok. Now that kdepim's actually been successfully built, and more importantly, the apps run, I can start packaging. kdepim, aside from ktorrent (which I'll never understand) and Amarok, was the most requested on the ML/IRC/Forum. Since we had a whole 5 people asking for it I felt I was justified in holding off on packages until kdepim was up n' running. That and I didn't expect compilation to break between the beta in December and release in January. Poor, young idealistic fool.

Join us next week when we delve into the finer points of writing a portfile for your kde program.