The Technical Working Group's mission statement

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Wed Mar 15 00:52:27 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 14 March 2006 14:27, R.F. Pels wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 March 2006 19.33, Andras Mantia wrote:
> >> remember that this is for KDE4 and so the version of KDevelop that
> >> ships in that timeframe would need to support it, and Alexander has
> >> already stated it will (whatever we pick =), so this doesn't seem to
> >> be an issue.
>
> That's great.
>
> > I think the problem he refers to is that those who want to port their
> > application to KDE4 and use KDevelop right now need the support for the
> > upcoming KDE build system now, and not when KDE 4 is out.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > I'm quite sure that many rely on KDevelop's automake manager instead of
> > hacking the Makefile.am's by hand and would be happy if they could just
> > do the same for cmake.
>
> Correct. In fact, it would be ideal IMHO if I could load a project that
> relies on the automake system and instruct the current kdevelop to switch
> over to the cmake build system.

Please feel free to start coding it yourself then. None of us who work on 
kdevelop have enough time for that. :(

--
Matt




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