ECM for KDE SC 4.10?

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Mon Sep 3 21:12:07 UTC 2012


On Monday 03 September 2012 10:58:51 PM Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> > Something else I'm thinking about is to raise the minimum required
> >> > cmake version for KDE 4 to cmake 2.8.6 maybe, to be able to use all the
> >> > new features.
> >> 
> >> Seems like a good idea.
> > 
> > When would be a good time to do it ?
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> I'd almost prefer requiring 2.8.8 for this requirement bump instead. 
> 
> There were several bugs fixed in the automoc stuff, and it will mkae it 
> possible for us to port KDE4 code to the qt4_use_modules function, which 
> will make transitioning to Qt 5/KF5 easier.
> 
> As much as possible, I think we should encourage porting to the modern way 
> of CMake code in KDE4 lifetime, so that porting to Qt 5/KF5 can be about 
> porting C++ code, not the buildsystem (those two tasks are quite 
> orthogonal). Porting from KDE4 to Qt 5 then will be something just like 
> changing qt4_use_modules to qt5_use_modules.
> 
Whichever version is the minimum needed for building frameworks using ECM then.
Timeframe?  whenever you want



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