On Tuesday 30 April 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:20:47 Stephen Kelly wrote: > > I am clueless to understand why building cmake from git and installing it > > into your kf5 prefix is a showstopper. Can you tell me? > > Time is limited. > > Every repository that I have to build (e.g. cmake) that is not the > repository I am trying to work on (e.g. plasma-frameworks) is time lost > getting my tasks done. > > Moreover, it is one more thing to learn: where is cmake's git, how to build > it, etc. For me that is not a big issue (I've build cmake from source many > times in the past) but for people who might want to work on frameworks > this kind of thing becomes a show stopper. Eventually they run into so > many things they have to locate, build and keep up to date that they have > no time / energy / desire to keep on. > > If we want to ensure that it is as difficult as possible to contribute to > frameworks, congratulations, we're doing a great job of that. If > frameworks is meant to be a project for you, Kevin, David and Alexander to > work on then by all means don't worry about this. If the idea is, however, > to make it attractive to others to work on, then some things need to > change.
Just to avoid misunderstandings: I never ever recommended to use cmake from git (or cvs back then), with KDE 4 we always required released versions. I would also prefer this for KF5, but it seemed to be consensus here on the list that using cmake from git is just fine. I don't like that, the same way as I don't like to have to update Qt from git, especially without announcement emails. I have one or two hours several evenings per week, and if I want to do something and notice it doesn't build, and cmake doesn't even tell me why, then this really sucks. I wanted to do something yesterday, but I left it after I ended up with a bad system introspection result. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
