objections to disallowing in-source builds in all KDE modules ?

Michael Pyne michael.pyne at kdemail.net
Fri Sep 29 05:03:06 BST 2006


On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:57, Jaison Lee wrote:
> I'll try and write-up a page somewhere on the website that we can link
> to that briefly outlines some of the benefits of the out-of-source
> build. That way individuals who are initially confused by what they
> believe is an arbitrary restriction can see some of the reasoning
> behind it.

Well as long as it doesn't actually make something easier for the buildsystem 
guys then it is an arbitrary restriction.  I forgot why we did that for 
kdelibs in the first place, was it to work around CMake bugs or something?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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