FindPlasma.cmake obsolete ?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sun Jan 4 22:02:01 CET 2009


On Sunday 04 January 2009, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> sekmadienis 04 Sausis 2009, Alexander Neundorf rašė:
> > Historically there was no plasma which was keeping any compatibility.
> > Now it is part of kdelibs and the necessary variables (except the opengl
> > one) are already set anyway by doing find_package(KDE4), which is still
> > required when using find_package(Plasma).
>
> Oh, so apparently this has already been done. Plasma variables are set
> unconditionally without checking and setting any kind of PLASMA_FOUND in
> FindKDE4Internal. Since the point which I'm arguing against, has already
> been implemented anyway, FindPlasma.cmake is surely of no practical use.
> However, I'm still very disappointed that KDE does not try to be at least a
> bit more modular and drops small bit of modularity it already had on the
> first occasion. I thought your mail[1] indicated the right direction.

That it doesn't work now doesn't mean it never will. 
At least it won't for 4.2.
We can try to support somewhat modular builds better for 4.3
FindPlasma.cmake in its current state doesn't help with this.

Alex


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