Hi all,
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 21:59:34 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> ...
> > I'd like to contribute here, but again, it wouldn't make sense just right
> > before a release is planed. So, should I commit the cmake-page now?
>
> By all means. CMake is going to happen, like it or not. If you have a
> page ready, please do commit it.
Thanks, I'll commit it.
> How long do you think it would take you to have a KDE4 base desktop
> in the book?
Well, it requires "only" 8 packages to have a base desktop. Of course, qt4 and
X and such is allready installed. As far as i can see, its oxygen-icons,
akonadi, kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-runtime, qimageblitz, kdebase and
kdebase-workspace. The instructions for all the packages looks quite similar -
just like it was in KDE3. Its all in the schema
mkdir -p build &&
cd build &&
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${KDE4_PREFIX} $OPTIONS .. &&
make &&
make install &&
cd ..
where the content of OPTIONS may vary a bit. It is more a question how deep to
follow optional dependencies. This is what (IMHO) makes KDE4 to such a big
part. It seems that it could make use of nearly everything.
To answer your question, a first "beta" should be possible in the weeks before
release. I think DJs idea is quite fine - commit stuff to have it in the book
but when it is not release-ready than remove it from the release-branch.
Btw, Rob Daniels contributed a patch for KDE4 somewhat 3 years ago. It was
quite early and KDE4 wasn't in a good state at those times (version 4.0.4).
This patch is a ideal starting point.
--
Thomas
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