On Tuesday 07 November 2006 20:56, Chris Cannam wrote: > > That's what I was saying, but perhaps my sarcasm was missed. My point > was that if the KDE project can choose a system on its merits for their > use, why can't we?
We neither have the weight, nor the manpower :-). > > But the transparent handling of uic, moc, and dcopidl are something > > I'm not too keen on re-inventing, for instance. > > Why not? Apart from uic, they're all handled by my reorganise-makefile > already in a handful of lines. About the same amount of work again to > detect whether the programs themselves exist, and you're done. Famous last words... Back in our early days, when I first tried to add a DCOP interface to RG, it took me about half an hour to do it, even though the available doc was pretty sparse. It was sparse, but sufficient, because all it said was "add this and that in your .h file, and the build system will do the rest". The rest being calling dcopidl, compiling the results, etc... Gathering all this info and reimplementing it would have been a chore. If we want to turn our editors into kparts, using KDE's build system will help in the same way. So I'm pretty sure that coming up with our own build system will be a decision we will regret. > scripts designed for building KDE and then rejected by KDE and > abandoned. Are you sensing a theme here? Actually, KDE rejected scons because of scons itself, not of bksys, and the adoption of scons never was as firm a thing as autoconf was. Had the scons dev team be more responsive, cmake wouldn't have been considered. But their dev team and the KDE guy pushing for it were making great progress, while scons turned out to be a dead-end for various reasons (dependencies computation taking too long, if I recall correctly). -- Guillaume. http://www.telegraph-road.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
