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Being only one post away from breaking my "most posts in a month record" and somewhat making up for the dearth is posting last month, I present to you "Taming the Tiger!". Er, Leopard that is.

That's the tentative title for my Camp KDE talk. I saw RangerRick's Mac presentation a few akademies ago of "Hey, here's what builds on the Mac" so I'm going to try something different. My talk will be more a bitch-a-thon. I'm good at those. I tell you I should've been born a woman (oh yah, I went there). A list of the hurdles/challenges you might be faced with when porting your application to this "exciting new platform" and some ways you can "keep that pussy in check" (remember the title kiddies!).

I have an outline of what I want to present on in mah head. Looks something like this:
The Stack - a little intro to OS X software stack. Apple's gcc version, libtool (and it's 10,000 copies, littered all over the build toolchain), Xcode, Frameworks and bundles are things I want to touch on here.

Take a bite out of the forbidden fruit (would've also worked great as presentation title don't you think?) - here I'll present OS X technologies that KDE might want to integrate with to provide better support for the OS X platform and reasons why they'd want to do this (well, there's only one: the third party developer). CoreImage/ImageIO - lib**g. Webkit - khtml. IOKit - Solid and custom OS X kstyles are possible topics for points of integration.

The tele-porter - tools to help your OS X build monkey transmute matter from one platform to next. otool, lipo, install_name_tool, Packagemaker, hdiutil (actually a 3rd party hdiutil frontend called iDMG) and probably macports if I have enough time will be introduced here.

Cross-Platform compatibility and you - I'll highlight some egregious offenders of cross platform portability here. Actually only one. It lives in kdemultimedia and uses cdparanoia. You might not think that's a problem but we'll see otherwise.

App demos! - Can't resist. Only KDE apps will be showcased here. None of this Qt only bollocks :-)

The talk will be very Leopard specific but I might touch on some Tiger stuff; unlikely though. I figure at 5 slides each I'll have enough for a good 30 minute talk and then just cut stuff out to bring it down to 20. That's the plan at least.

I would have loved to touch on mac.kde.org and my plans for that, but that will have to wait until some other time.