An attempt at creating a reference for new developers

[Allen Winter]

On Thursday 18 August 2011 11:54:37 AM Michael Jansen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I started to write on a book or however you would call it that i hope oneday 
> will be able to ease new developers into our project.
> 
> Currently the main focus is on cmake without kde and setting up an project of 
> the size of kde manually. All the dirty little secrets like visibility-hidden, 
> export macro, how to find dependencies with cmake and so on should eventually 
> be covered.
> 
> All that stuff will help a new dev understand how our buildsystem works. When 
> done it should be easy to add a chapter about kde and mention how we solved 
> that problem and how we use cmake.
> 
> I am currently at about 40 pages (it is done in latex so about 30 with 
> content). The part i consider ready is the description of the cmake module 
> mode and before i go further (config mode and then adding libraries, 
> executables ...) i hope to get feedback on everything
> 
> - style
> - wording
> - possible content
> - ...
> - whatever comes to your mind as long as its civil.
> 
> http://uploads.michael-jansen.biz/cmake-book.pdf
> 
Neat idea.
I read it and think you have a great start there.

I like Nicolas' idea of putting it in a git repo so I can make contributions easier.

Regards,
Allen