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

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 29 September 2006 18:23, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday 29 September 2006 18:09, David Faure wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
>   I'm not really going to lose sleep over it since I now primarily use 
> srcdir != builddir anyway, but I strongly suggest that if we continue down 
> this path of relying on it, we include scripts right in the toplevel 
> directories of the modules and in the tarballs that completely automate this 
> to a level not even done yet today.  Docs should also be included at those 
> points.
> 
I started writing a script to mimic ./configure.  It tried to convert the most often used options
(eg. --prefix) into cmake equivalents.  It created a kde-module/build subdir and a few
other things.  I posted it here for comments.

The consensus was that people simply had to learn the new, cmake-way.
And I stopped development on that script. 

Or, we have ./configure that prints something like the following and exits:
   "we don't do things the autohell way any longer.  please use the cmake way.
    read the INSTALL file in this subdir or visit developer.kde.org for details"