On Thursday 18 August 2011 11:54:37 AM Michael Jansen wrote: > Hi > > I started to write on a book or however you would call it that i hope oneday > will be able to ease new developers into our project. > > Currently the main focus is on cmake without kde and setting up an project of > the size of kde manually. All the dirty little secrets like > visibility-hidden, > export macro, how to find dependencies with cmake and so on should eventually > be covered. > > All that stuff will help a new dev understand how our buildsystem works. When > done it should be easy to add a chapter about kde and mention how we solved > that problem and how we use cmake. > > I am currently at about 40 pages (it is done in latex so about 30 with > content). The part i consider ready is the description of the cmake module > mode and before i go further (config mode and then adding libraries, > executables ...) i hope to get feedback on everything > > - style > - wording > - possible content > - ... > - whatever comes to your mind as long as its civil. > > http://uploads.michael-jansen.biz/cmake-book.pdf > Neat idea. I read it and think you have a great start there.
I like Nicolas' idea of putting it in a git repo so I can make contributions easier. Regards, Allen _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
