Getting ecm files from the ECM package

[David Faure]

On Saturday 02 November 2013 13:44:55 Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > In case we decide to go this way (i.e. the "my ideal view" plus optional
> > downloading), and we should hear Stephens opinion on that,
> 
> My opinion:
> 
> 1) The current situation with ECM and KF5 is just fine.
> 2) There are other issues to work on which are more relevant, urgent and
> impactful than this maven-like-thingy.

+1

I don't understand what this effort is trying to fix?

The fact that find modules and kde settings are both provided by ECM?
Well I say -- that's great.

I can't see myself justifying to people who just want to use KArchive on e.g. 
Windows, why they would have do download and install
1) cmake
2) ECM
3) tier0-kf5
before being able to build karchive.
Obvious expected reaction: "I need to set up THREE dependencies just for the 
f*** build system? Why can't you guys use qmake instead?"

We're trying to make it easier to use our frameworks, not harder!

Even 1) and 2) is already more than one would have hoped for, but not much we 
can do about that.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5