qca2 and a few other questions

[Marc Espie]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:46:28PM +0200, Martin Sandsmark wrote:
> 
>    On Wednesday 23 June 2010 13:23:09 Marc Espie wrote:
> 
>    > Still, if you look at this from a distribution standpoint, it is a
>    pain.
> 
>    > As there is some discrepancy between "official" qt and "official"
>    kde.
> 
>    Why so? Either you build Qt with everything, or you build Qt without
>    stuff and build it afterwards.
> 
>    > It also has to be actual release files. Having to grab stuff off
> 
>    > svn/whatever is not quite okay for actual releases.
> 
>    I didn't suggest you grab anything from neither SVN nor `whatever`.
> 
>    (FWIW, the latest Phonon release is here:
>    http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/phonon/4.4.2/phonon-4.4
>    .2.tar.bz2)
> 
>    > One thing you could do that would help a LOT is integrate the qt4
>    build
> 
>    > tendrils into phonon itself, and keep it synched in phonon itself.
> 
>    The pri files are not stored together with the Phonon sources in the Qt
>    tree. I also know ~nothing about qmake, hence why CMake is the official
>    build system of Phonon.
> 
>    > This would allow me (and other distributions) to build phonon just
>    once,
> 
>    > as part of qt4.
> 
>    Why can't you do that now?

There are other parts of qt4 that do link with phonon. So if I build without
phonon, they don't build.

Most of qt4's examples directory will link to phonon and/or webkit...