Hi. I create custom scripts as I need more control over what they do. For example, I use checkinstall in mine and other things.
But the creation of build scripts was just an example, I guess... I can imagine that such a thing would make it easier for other people doing other things as well though. On Monday, December 23, 2013 02:33:47 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 23 de desembre de 2013, a les 08:16:59, nerdopolis va escriure: > > Hi. > > In my opinion the Frameworks split into 57 repositories could make it harder > > to for users to create build scripts around KDE Frameworks 5. > > Why would anyone create a build script around KDE Frameworks 5 when there are > alredy such things? > > Cheers, > Albert > > > I can see why > > it had to be done, I heard it's so that they can be on separate release > > cycles. > > > > > > There is a way to unify these Frameworks while keeping them in separate GIT > > repositories, using Git submodules. > > > > I suggest a top-level repository, that uses has all 57 of the Frameworks > > repositories linked in with Git submodules. QT5 already has a similar > > solution, and better describes what I mean: https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt5 > > They have multiple components in separate repositories, but they have one > > repository that lets users build all of them as one, as all of the separate > > components are tracked together with Git submodules. > > > > > > I created a proof of concept repository to test this idea with KDE > > Frameworks. I copied out some of the CMake files from the original kdelibs, > > and I linked the each of the frameworks to the appropriate folders with Git > > submodules. > > > > With only a few modifications in my build script, pretty much just changing > > the repository URL, and branch, and changing the way it handles submodules, > > I was able to fully build all of the Frameworks in the separate > > repositories. > > > > I created it here, hopefully it will be of use to someone, or maybe even > > merged on Quickgit if it's good enough https://github.com/n3rdopolis/kf5 > > _______________________________________________ > > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
