[kde-community] Updating TechBase Getting_Started pages
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Mon Aug 17 18:42:42 BST 2015
El Dilluns, 17 d'agost de 2015, a les 09:53:58, John Layt va escriure:
> Hi,
>
> I've started to update the old TechBase Getting_Started pages for the
> new KF5 world [1].
>
> My aim is to teach the one simplest quickest way to build KF5 for new
> KDE contributors. There's a few key concepts I want this rewrite to
> follow:
> 1) There is only one way to do things, no giving alternatives
> 2) There is only KF5, no KDE4
> 3) There is only kdesrc-build, no manual messing around
>
> The three build scenarios (= new dev personas) that will be presented will
> be: 1) Build an app only using packaged Qt and KF5
> 2) Build Plasma only using packaged Qt and KF5
> 3) Build Frameworks using packaged Qt
>
> All the more detailed or historic information will be removed to other
> parts of TechBase [2]. New build instructions for external devs just
> wanting to use a Framework or two should also go here and not
> Getting_Started.
>
> This may result in some default build configs needing to be added to
> the kdesrc-build repo to make life easier. There may also need to be a
> couple of simple scripts to set-up kdesrc-build to start with, and to
> actually run things seeing as kdesrc-build doesn't. The less the new
> dev has to worry about the better.
>
> Thoughts? Is anyone else working on something similar?
I think kdesrc-build is a bit of an overkill for the "Build an app only using
packaged Qt and KF5" scenario.
I find it easier to just clone, cmake and make than having to learn how to use
kdesrc-build.
Cheers,
Albert
>
> John.
>
> [1] https://techbase.kde.org/KF5/Getting_Started
> [2] Probably https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Build?
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