[Kde-bindings] kdebindings and ruby-1.9

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010, Richard Dale wrote:
> On Sunday 07 February 2010 02:41:15 pm Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 05 February 2010, Richard Dale wrote:
> > > On Friday 05 February 2010 06:57:24 pm Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > On Friday 05 February 2010, Melton, Ryan wrote:
> > > > > Won't work on Windows.  Windows filenames are case-preserving but
> > > > > case-insensitive, so FindRuby.cmake and FindRUBY.cmake can't exist
> > > > > together in the same directory. Ryan
> > > >
> > > > Grmbl...
> > > >
> > > > Should we add a subdirectory cmake/modules/JustForFindRUBY/, add this
> > > > also to CMAKE_MODULE_PATH and move FindRUBY.cmake there ?
> > > >
> > > > I mean, we cannot just replace the file, since then everywhere where
> > > > find_package(RUBY)
> > > > is used, FindRuby.cmake will not be loaded :-/
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody have a non-hackish idea what we can do ?
> > >
> > > Why do we need two 'find ruby's in the first place? Surely there isn't
> > > that muchy Ruby code in KDE to make it too difficult to convert to just
> > > use one of them?
> >
> > Removing (or renaming) FindRUBY.cmake to FindRuby.cmake would be a source
> > incompatible change and would break the build of everything that uses it
> > (inside KDE svn or outside).
>
> Yes, but as far as the KDE project is concerned cmake and Ruby are only
> used in kdebindings/ruby, and I think we should switch to the standard
> script that is provided with cmake 2.8. 

I agree, but there is also stuff which uses kdelibs which is not in KDE svn. 
Removing/renaming FindRUBY.cmake to FindRuby.cmake would break those apps.

We may require a cmake 2.8.something for KDE 4.5 maybe...

Alex