[kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
<pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
> Hello,

Hi Pau,

>
> Where can I find the CI scripts? If someone could give me access to Jenkins
> and give me a little introduction to what's already in place for CI, I can
> probably help with automating the SDK generation so that it's available from
> the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.

The CI scripts are located at websites/build-kde-org on git.kde.org,
in the "production" branch.
Please let me know if you have any questions on what they do.

>
> I am attending FOSDEM, in case you think it's easier to explain in person.

Thanks,
Ben

>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
>> <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > * Can we create a "proper" KDE SDK?  We have the SDK module which is
>> >> > really a mix of general development related apps and KDE-specific dev
>> >> > tools, and we have Examples, and we have a few other bits-and-pieces
>> >> > scattered around.  Can we split the apps off to stand on their own
>> >> > repos in Extragear, and merge Examples and the other tools into SDK?
>> >>
>> >> We can, it just needs manpower ;-)
>> >
>> >
>> > I think I have been asking for a KDE SDK for the last 7 years :-)
>> >
>> > KF5 should make that easier, given that there are many "small" parts.
>> >
>> > Another idea: let's make the different parts of the SDK (Tier 1
>> > components,
>> > Tier 2 components, etc) available from a repository that could be
>> > integrated
>> > in the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.
>> >
>> > This task is very time consuming (lots of rebuilds and tests) but it
>> > shouldn't be too difficult from a technical point of view. It
>> > essentially
>> > requires CMake knowledge. Jenkins knowledge and access to a powerful
>> > build
>> > machine would be a plus. It's a pity GSoC is so far yet :-/
>>
>> I'd suggest this get integrated into our existing CI scripts to make
>> it easier to perform when needed - they already have 99% of the
>> structure and other necessary capability to build all of the
>> frameworks. I'd advise against doing this as part of a GSoC project
>> however - other than producing the necessary metadata to make the
>> "repository" there wouldn't be too much to actually code...
>>
>> The repository in question can probably be distributed via files.kde.org.
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Pau Garcia i Quiles
>> > http://www.elpauer.org
>> > (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben Cooksley
>>
>> >
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