Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Harri Porten]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> > > SconsFile:
> > > if kdeenv.findProg("blah"):
> > > 	kdeenv.compileAndInstallProgram("blah", "addon1.cpp", install=kdeenv.bindir)
> > Powerful, but as Harri points out, too powerful for IDEs.
> >
> Hmm. Is this our major concern? kdevelop can parse, complete and write
> C++ after all ;)

Hmmm. Thinking about it. Can KDevelop really deal with qmake's .pro files
for example? How does it deal with conditional statements for e.g. X11 and
Windows platforms? Or values gather at runtime from environment variables
or system() calls?

Harri.