thank you. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upul Kumara posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:57:28 +0530 as excerpted: > > > I am new to KDE and I want to contribute to KDE as a developer. I need > > to know best way to build the KDE project (whole project or part of the > > project). > > Developers, along with sysadmins and power users, are the reason for > kde.techbase.org. Here's a link. You can explore from there. Project > building and links to sources, getting involved, release schedules, > documentation for sysadmins, it's all there. =:^) > > http://techbase.kde.org/ > > As a somewhat different alternative, as a gentooer I can tell you that > the gentoo/kde project is one of the largest and most active in gentoo, > and there's an overlay with scripted builds for master/HEAD, as well as > the current and (when forked) next-up branches. Many of the gentoo/kde > project people run master/HEAD, thereby keeping it very actively > maintained within the general scripted-build-from-source distro that is > gentoo. The difference here is that since it's the normal distro package > management tools being used, everything is integrated into the normal > distro, contrasted with the "independent of the distro" method described > on techbase. Thus, you can choose distro integrated or distro > independent build methods based on what works best for you. =:^) > > (FWIW, I personally am not a kde or gentoo dev, just a reasonably > advanced user (even among gentooers) that takes the administration of his > own system very seriously, relishing the power of choice and > customization that both kde and gentoo expose... and a regular on a > couple kde lists, among others.) > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >
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