State of the buildsystem in KF5

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013 19:32:44 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> here's a really short summary of the current state of the buildsystem in 
> kdelibs.
> 
> kdeqtstaging, all libraries in tier1/ and all libraries in tier2/ can be
> built  as part of kdelibs, or each one separately stand-alone.
> So, except still needing kdeqtstaging, the buildsystems in tier1/ and
> tier2/  are basically done.
> They work as they are now, and could be used as independent packages.
> 
> What I really do not know is how good they work on OSX, and even more so on 
> Windows. It would be really good if somebody could spend time on kdelibs
> frameworks under Windows. I mean *really* good.
> We may even still have a blocker there with the missing manifest-for-mingw 
> stuff.
> 
> KDELibs4Config.cmake and maybe also kde4support may be a bit shaky...
> I built plasma-frameworks last weekend and it worked for me, so it seemed
> to  be ok.
> But I'm afraid this is some growing pain we'll have as long as the kdelibs 
> modularization is not finished.

Thanks for the update, it's good to know roughly where we stand on these 
things. Seems we're making good progress. :)
-- 
sebas

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