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

[George Staikos]

On Friday 29 September 2006 18:31, Allen Winter wrote:
>
> 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"

  Perhaps it's a good idea to teach people the cmake way, yes.  On the other 
hand, "read the INSTALL file" sounds less than pleasant.  3-4 lines of how to 
do it the quick and easy way would really help:

"execute the following commands for a default build:
cmake .......
....
"
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