Review Request 126185: Make the KAppTemplate CMake module global

[Marco Martin]

> On Dec. 12, 2015, 3:35 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > kde-modules/KDETemplateGenerator.cmake, line 14
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126185/diff/4/?file=421458#file421458line14>
> >
> >     OK, what needs to be in the subdirectory? are template1, template2 etc the subdriectory names? The packages file name?
> >     
> >     The following sentence suggests this command only creates a single template tarball, but the signature here has multiple arguments.
> >     
> >     Also, the command doesn't need to include the word "template" twice. I suggest kde_add_app_template.
> >     
> >     Finally, the signature now includes the TEMPLATES keyword.

the subdirectories have the uncompressed templates in it
the subdirectory names will correspond to the final package name.


> On Dec. 12, 2015, 3:35 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > kde-modules/KDETemplateGenerator.cmake, line 84
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126185/diff/4/?file=421458#file421458line84>
> >
> >     Use ``KDE_INSTALL_KTEMPLATESDIR`` instead of ``KTEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR``. You also need to document that this variable needs to be set before using the command.
> >     
> >     My preference would actually be to make it explicit in the signature that installation will happen, by having the usage be something like
> >     
> >         kde_package_app_templates(
> >             TEMPLATES
> >                 foo
> >                 bar
> >                 baz
> >             INSTALL_DIR
> >                 "${KDE_INSTALL_KTEMPLATESDIR}"
> >         )
> >     
> >     My view is that this makes it explicit what will happen when you're reading the code - it will package the templates and install them. But I'm not going to force your hand on this if you'd rather not do it that way.

would it still take ${KDE_INSTALL_KTEMPLATESDIR} as default or would be mandatory to be passed by the caller?


- Marco


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On Dec. 9, 2015, 12:12 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 9, 2015, 12:12 p.m.)
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> Review request for Build System, KDE Frameworks, Plasma, Aleix Pol Gonzalez, and Simon Wächter.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> 
> templates are very useful as teaching tool in order to make
> a minimal application that uses a certain framework.
> templates in the KAppTemplate repository will always get forgotten
> (plus kapptemplate is not really necessary as they work in kdevelop as well)
> An ideal situation would be frameworks having templates in their own repos
> with templates of barebone apps using the main framework features.
> In order to do that, the cmake stuff needed in order to correctly install
> a template needs to be ported to a place avaiable to all frameworks
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> 
> Diffs
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>   kde-modules/KDETemplateGenerator.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake b7cd34d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126185/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> done some templates installed by plasma-framework
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> Thanks,
> 
> Marco Martin
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