KDE on FreeBSD

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The KDE on FreeBSD team focuses on packaging and making sure that the experience of KDE and Qt on FreeBSD is as good as possible.

The team kept busy during the last quarter of 2015. Quite a few big updates were committed to the ports tree, and a few more are being worked on in our experimental repository.

Like in previous quarters, we would like to thank several people who have contributed with machines, patches and general help. Tobias Berner, Guido Falsi (madpilot@), Adriaan de Groot, Ralf Nolden, Steve Wills (swills@) and Josh Paetzel (jpaetzel@) have been essential to our work.

The following big updates were landed in the ports tree this quarter. In many cases, we have also contributed patches to the upstream projects.

CMake 3.4.0 and 3.4.1
Calligra 2.9.1, the latest release of the integrated work applications suite. Calligra had last been updated in the ports tree in the end of 2013!
PyQt4 4.11.4, QScintilla2 2.9.1 and SIP 4.17.
PyQt5 5.5.1. Thanks to the work spearheaded by Guido Falsi and Tobias Berner in the previous quarter, the PyQt5 ports have finally been committed to the ports tree. Not only was this long-awaited on its own, but it also allows other ports to be updated to their latest versions.
QtCreator 3.5.1 and 3.6.0.
A couple of Qt5 packaging bugs were fixed: it should now be more straightforward to use the Qt5 ports to build software outside the ports tree, and it is now possible to build ports that require a C++11 compiler and Qt5 on FreeBSD 9.x.

Work on updating the Qt5 ports to their latest version, as well as porting KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 to FreeBSD, is well underway in our experimental area51 repository. At the moment, it contains Qt5 5.5.1, KDE Frameworks 5.17.0, Plasma 5.5.1 and KDE Applications 15.12.0.

Users interested in testing those ports are encouraged to follow the instructions in our website and report their results to our mailing list. Qt5 5.5.1 is in our "qt-5.5" branch, and Plasma 5 and the rest is in the "plasma5" branch (which also contains Qt 5.5.1).

Commit the Qt5 5.5.1 update. Land the KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma 5 ports to the tree. Investigate what needs to be done to make QtWebEngine, the Chromium-based replacement for QtWebKit, work on FreeBSD.