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Software Installation - autopackage
by Carl on Wednesday 20/Apr/2005, @11:31

Are there any plans to embrace autopackage with KDE4? What I mean is, is there a way to embed autopackage support into KDE? Perhaps through KControl. Perhaps a konqueror plugin to recognize .desktop file embeded in the web page (this idea is from autopackage.org). Add drag and drop support for that desktop file to permanently install the package or to uninstall it? I know autopackage isn't ready, but if KDE embraces it as it is, even with its current state of development, more developers will use it. The only problems we're seeing right now is issues with gcc 3.2 - 3.4 and QT/kdelibs . Hopefully this will be fixed with QT4. I realize this will probably reuquire a custom front-end to package, but like I said, if you build it they will come. And besides, autopackage promises backward compatibility so it wouldn't be that big of deal to go ahead and support it with its current state. This would also be great for updating KDE without having to use distro RPMs. We could just have a system updater.

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Re: Software Installation - autopackage
by ac on Wednesday 20/Apr/2005, @13:05

> The only problems we're seeing right now is issues with gcc 3.2 - 3.4 and QT/kdelibs . Hopefully this will be fixed with QT4.

That's no issue between gcc and Qt/kdelibs but an issue between different C++ ABI versions in gcc. This means that Qt4 will definitely not fix the problem of autopackage and C++.

The fix will be a stable C++ ABI and all distros shipping at least this gcc version. I don't know if gcc 4.0 will offer it, but even if it does it will take a long time (years) until all distros switched to gcc4.

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