ECM for KDE SC 4.10?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 04 September 2012, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Monday 03 September 2012 11:19:01 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dilluns, 3 de setembre de 2012, a les 17:12:07, Allen Winter va 
escriure:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Before the dependency freeze ;-)
> 
> Righto
> 
> And those of us not working on frameworks can start using ECM with CMake
> 2.8.8 too, right? I mean, use ECM to build KDE SC 4.10.  and stop using
> kdelibs/cmake entirely. Will that work?

No.
Our plan is to release the first version of e-c-m once the first version (or 
beta or something) of kf5 is released, and until then usually require the 
newest cmake version (i.e. 2.8.9 currently).

Getting stuff in e-c-m is the chance for SIC changes, and we cannot do this as 
long as we are in kdelibs4 land.

Alex