On Mon, August 17, 2015 09:53:58 John Layt 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?
This has been sorely needed, and I've never quite had the time to bring kdesrc-buildrc-setup up to speed. But do let me know if there's things I should take *out* of kdesrc-build.git to make it easier, or some kind of feature that's sorely needed. Regards, - Michael Pyne _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
