Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Sunday 20 February 2005 22:27 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> On Saturday 19 February 2005 23:20, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 February 2005 17:54, Adam Treat wrote:
> > > Uhm, I think it is not a tradeoff that can even be remotely considered.
> > > KDevelop's users will scream bloody murder if they lose the functionality
> > > to edit their build system through a convenient GUI and rightly so. 
> > > Every other IDE in existence has this ability,
> >
> > Except for Idea, Eclipse and MS Visual Studio. What you edit are settings
> 
> Ah, yes, another point: e.g. eclipse comes with support for makefile-based 
> projects and so do several other IDE's (and cmake generates makefiles). I 
> don't know whether this is also true for scons.
What good is that support if it doesn't know how to write back the changes I do
in the IDE to the cmake original files? Or are you saying, the fact eclipse can
call "make" means cmake support?

Greetings, Stephan