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

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 29 September 2006 18:09, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 13:13, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> > 29 Eyl 2006 Cum 13:59 tarihinde, David Faure şunları yazmıştı: 
> > > On Friday 29 September 2006 12:14, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > > On Friday, 29. September 2006 10:28, David Faure wrote:
> > > > > And then we'll see again thousands of commits for adjusting svn:ignore,
> > > > > and this can actually create problems at times (when trying to turn a
> > > > > generated file into a source file). Let's move on to cleaner solutions
> > > > > that don't require so much manual tweaking.
> > > >
> > > > I really don't like that we enforce srcdir != builddir at all. not that I
> > > > would use it, but it is really hard enough to build KDE. Don't make it
> > > > harder, just because you happen to dislike one particular flavour. If
> > > > we'd have a vote, I would object.
> > >
> > > So can we say that
> > [...]
> > > 2) we forbid people to add generated files to svn:ignore - to reduce the
> > > amount of noise commits ?
> > 
> > I guess the whole repository can't have a general svn:ignore property say for 
> > whole /trunk ?
> 
> I don't think so. And anyway you would commit all generated files into that svn:ignore?
> I don't see how that helps - still as many commits.
> 
> Stephan is right anyway, I forgot 3) : if some people use srcdir==buiddir then
> we get broken commits.
> 
Forcing srcdir!=builddir is perfectly ok with me.

Whatever we decide, please just be consistent across all modules.