please make it easier to hack on frameworks

[Kevin Ottens]

On Monday 29 April 2013 18:13:59 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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.

Well it's been necessary at some point because you needed to make fast paced 
changes. I didn't expect that habit to stick though. When is the next release 
of cmake planned? If we could stick to that one for a while that would be 
nice.

Once it's released we should not depend on unreleased cmake version anymore 
IMO.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

Sponsored by BlueSystems and KDAB to work on KDE Frameworks
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