On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:58 PM, David Edmundson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:53 AM, John Layt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've started to update the old TechBase Getting_Started pages for the >> new KF5 world [1]. >> >> My aim is to teach the one simplest quickest way to build KF5 for new >> KDE contributors. There's a few key concepts I want this rewrite to >> follow: >> 1) There is only one way to do things, no giving alternatives >> 2) There is only KF5, no KDE4 >> 3) There is only kdesrc-build, no manual messing around >> >> The three build scenarios (= new dev personas) that will be presented will >> be: >> 1) Build an app only using packaged Qt and KF5 >> 2) Build Plasma only using packaged Qt and KF5 >> 3) Build Frameworks using packaged Qt >> >> All the more detailed or historic information will be removed to other >> parts of TechBase [2]. New build instructions for external devs just >> wanting to use a Framework or two should also go here and not >> Getting_Started. >> >> This may result in some default build configs needing to be added to >> the kdesrc-build repo to make life easier. There may also need to be a >> couple of simple scripts to set-up kdesrc-build to start with, and to >> actually run things seeing as kdesrc-build doesn't. The less the new >> dev has to worry about the better. >> >> Thoughts? Is anyone else working on something similar?
Just want to say Thanks for taking this task on - it's quite an important one to make our software more accessible to new contributors. >> > We have one for Plasma here. > > https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Building > > I'm happy for this to become a redirect and unifying them all. > Cheers, Ben > >> John. >> >> [1] https://techbase.kde.org/KF5/Getting_Started >> [2] Probably https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Build? >> _______________________________________________ >> kde-community mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
