An attempt at creating a reference for new developers

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 18 August 2011, 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

Great :-)
But I won't have time to have a look at it before mid of september, see my 
other mail.

Alex