ECM for KDE SC 4.10?

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Tue Sep 4 21:12:20 UTC 2012


On Monday 03 September 2012 11:19:01 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dilluns, 3 de setembre de 2012, a les 17:12:07, Allen Winter va escriure:
> > On Monday 03 September 2012 10:58:51 PM Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > > Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > >> > Something else I'm thinking about is to raise the minimum required
> > > >> > cmake version for KDE 4 to cmake 2.8.6 maybe, to be able to use all
> > > >> > the
> > > >> > new features.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Seems like a good idea.
> > > > 
> > > > When would be a good time to do it ?
> > > > 
> > > > Alex
> > > 
> > > I'd almost prefer requiring 2.8.8 for this requirement bump instead.
> > > 
> > > There were several bugs fixed in the automoc stuff, and it will mkae it
> > > possible for us to port KDE4 code to the qt4_use_modules function, which
> > > will make transitioning to Qt 5/KF5 easier.
> > > 
> > > As much as possible, I think we should encourage porting to the modern way
> > > of CMake code in KDE4 lifetime, so that porting to Qt 5/KF5 can be about
> > > porting C++ code, not the buildsystem (those two tasks are quite
> > > orthogonal). Porting from KDE4 to Qt 5 then will be something just like
> > > changing qt4_use_modules to qt5_use_modules.
> > 
> > Whichever version is the minimum needed for building frameworks using ECM
> > then. Timeframe?  whenever you want
> 
> Before the dependency freeze ;-)
> 
Righto

And those of us not working on frameworks can start using ECM with CMake 2.8.8 too, right?
I mean, use ECM to build KDE SC 4.10.  and stop using kdelibs/cmake entirely.
Will that work?

-Allen




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