Thoughts concerning (ease of) building on other supported platforms

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday April 21 2016 13:18:29 René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> Also see Marko's reaction below.

Could have known I'd forget to copy that if I didn't do it at once:

Marko Käning wrote on 20160421::05:47:02 re: "Re: An interesting read, perhaps..."

>Hi all,
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>+1 from me for providing a KDE-official way of installing KF5 frameworks and apps in a Linuxy fashion in full support of René's argumentation.
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>Leaving developers and users the choice for how they want to install KDE's ecosystem on their favorite OS is the way to go.
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>Please consider his point of view.
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>Since I started to contribute to CI for KDE on OSX it was beyond me to figure out how KDE's interlinked libs and apps would have to be isolated into separate application bundles and still be able to supply the required interconnectivity and overall functionality like on a Linux system.
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>Having René's alternative build method in place would not only support developers like us but allow for real CI including realistic tests. Even if this alternative installation won't be the official one, its CI results will be of great benefit for the KDE-approved but not testable standaloney installations.
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>From my active OSX/CI time I recall not only a few issues being caught by my personal OSX builders. Not all those were caused by my builders being MacPorts-based...