[Kde-pim] kdesrc-build setup for kdepim

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Saturday, December 12, 2015 11:00:39 PM CET Alex Merry wrote:
> The recent splitting of kdepimlibs has caused a clean run of
> kdesrc-build to fail on lots of pim modules. This seems to be a
> combination of kde-build-metadata not recording the dependencies
> properly for a lot of things, and "playground/pim" in the kdepim
> kdesrc-build include file being far too general (eg: akonadi-vkontakte
> is kdelibs4-based, not kf5-based).
> 
> I started trying to fix it, but got a bit overwhelmed. It would be
> easier for someone / some people with domain knowledge to do it, I
> think, hence me emailing the kde-pim list.

I started looking into it last night too :) I got most of it building locally, 
but indeed the deps are not recorded properly.

> 
> Also, I'd like to point out that it is incredibly confusing when
> non-Frameworks libraries claim to be in Frameworks (by prefixing their
> CMake module names with "KF5", like KF5Async).

KF5Async will hopefully eventually become a framework...

For the non-to-become-frameworks PIM libraries, we could prefix them with 
"KPim" or something like that instead of KF5.

> When I see
> find_package(KF5Foo) in a CMakeLists.txt file, I expect KF5Foo to
> actually be a KDE Framework. Could we move away from calling things KF5*
> until they are actually in frameworks (ie: in the frameworks/ directory
> on the KDE servers, and expected to go into a Frameworks release soon)?
> Apart from anything else, moving previously-released stuff into the KF5
> namespace when they join Frameworks will probably help packagers.
> 
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> KDE PIM mailing list kde-pim at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim
> KDE PIM home page at http://pim.kde.org/


-- 
Daniel Vrátil
www.dvratil.cz | dvratil at kde.org
IRC: dvratil on Freenode (#kde, #kontact, #akonadi, #fedora-kde)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/attachments/20151213/e551c59e/attachment.sig>