renaming kde-config to kde4-config

David Faure faure at kde.org
Mon Jun 26 22:22:03 BST 2006


On Monday 26 June 2006 23:07, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> AFAIK kde-config is for build systems, developers and maybe internals of 
> KDE.
kde-config isn't used by kde at runtime. So it's only for the build system and for
debugging a kde setup.

I'm fine with renaming it. But "in order to be able to install it in the 
same dir as the KDE3 one" makes no sense. kde3 and kde4 need different
installation directories ("prefixes") otherwise everything is going to clash.
From kio_uiserver to konqueror to kmail, etc.

The point with renaming kde-config and kdeinit is that this makes it possible
to have kde3 and kde4 installed, in different prefixes, but both prefixes
being in the PATH. By renaming those binaries we will ensure that kde4 build
systems will pick up the kde4 setup, and that kde4 programs will start
a kde4 environment if needed at runtime.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).





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