kde 3.4 stable ?

jph_void · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

Hey i was just wondering why the hell the release of the kde 3.4 ebuilds as stable are so long ? Normally we should already have it no ? Why are they still marked as testing ??

Gentoonie · Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

This is a normal period for testing. You can unmask it though, or whats bothering you?
Same scenario with GNOME 2.10, but nobody got hurt, did one?

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zieloo · Veteran Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1337

Try it and you will see:P

Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

I prefer it to be stable when it reach a 3.4.0-r1 or -r2. KDE i always buggy. I'm using the latest stable verion in gentoo and still it has some bugs. It never happened to my with gnome. :wink:

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PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

I'm using the split ebuild 'version' of 3.4 and I have never seen a more stable KDE on my machine.

kurtb · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2003 Posts: 23

jph_void · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

Mmm im' mot sure its connected with the state of the packages but now kmail have no cess to demand me if i want to keep the password on config files. It told me that it's better with kwallet but it don"t find kwallet. I HAVE installed kwallet ! Please please how to shut it up ?

Kensai · Guru Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 569 Location: Puerto Rico

I have to say I contradicted myself and upgraded to gentoo testing just to get the latest kde and so far 3.4.0 is more stable than 3.3.2. :wink:

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jph_void · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Nov 2004 Posts: 82

Mad Merlin · Veteran Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 1155

To answer the original poster's question, the reason that KDE 3.4 is taking so long to hit x86 is mainly due to the issues with compiling it using -fvisibility (a new feature in GCC 3.4 which can potentially give significant speedups). Interesting enough, since x86 users are still using GCC 3.3.5, they should have no issues using KDE 3.4, but ~x86 users will probably have issues. There's also a (supposedly) smaller issue with managing and testing both the monolithic and the split ebuilds, but AFAIK, the -fvisibility bug is still pending.

Maedhros · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:11 pm Post subject:

That's been fixed now, by the simple expedient of disabling -fvisibility=hidden entirely.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86898
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