please make it easier to hack on frameworks

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 29 April 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi ...
> 
> today i am unable to work on plasma-frameworks. this is because i am
> currently unable to compile the frameworks branch of kdelibs. in turn,
> this is because i do not have a recent enough version of cmake.
> 
> the cmake version required is 2.8.10.20130411. this isn't even a release
> version of cmake, but a dated snapshot! i am left with the option of
> moving to cmake from git (something i really would like to avoid) or not
> working on plasma-frameworks (which is not really an option for me).
> 
> i am sure there was a good reason to move to this new version of cmake. i
> am also sure that requiring devel versions of build tools to work on
> frameworks limits the people who can and will work on it.
> 
> would it be possible for someone who feels reponsible for frameworks 5 to
> institute some more developer-friendly requirements here?

I am all for requiring only released versions of cmake.
Or at least announcing it when an update is required.
But it seemed to be the majority opinion that this is not necessary in kf5.

Alex