Having a Tier 0 for cmake and git submodules

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Tue Nov 12 19:53:34 UTC 2013


On Sunday 10 November 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Since there's been several times discussions about having a kind of "Tier
> 0" for building our frameworks containing what is right now in ECM
> kde-modules directory, but the idea was never really on the table because
> of the extra dependency it'd bring, I looked a bit at the git submodule
> option to get there.
> 
> The motivation for going with a git submodule is that it would allow such a
> Tier 0 to be completely transparent to third parties who would want to grab
> a Tier 1 framework and not bother about installing anything else than our
> main dependencies (namely Qt, CMake and ECM).

since there is so much opposition to this idea I guess we won't do this.

Any opinions to Aarons proposal in the "Getting ecm files from the ECM 
package" thread ?

Alex


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