[Kde-pim] Creating a kdepim git meta repo

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Sunday, August 16, 2015 8:52:43 AM CEST John Layt wrote:
> On 16 August 2015 at 08:33, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame at kde.org> wrote:
> > Il Sat, 15 Aug 2015 18:18:49 -0400, Martin Klapetek ha scritto:
> >> Imho it cannot be much more easier than to provide a kdesrc-build config
> >> file,
> >> download it in a desired folder and run "kdesrc-build". There's really
> >> nothing more to it, so not much tool learning needed.
> > 
> > +1.
> 
> The problem is the kdesrc-build docs and TechBase docs are not very
> newbie friendly or recently updated. Heck, they're not very "old hand
> returning and trying to work out how to do things" friendly either :-)
> I'd agree with using kdesrc-build for everything if a) the
> documentation exists to explain how to use it for the most common
> scenarios, b) it actually easily supported the most common scenarios.
> It took me ages to work out how to get it just to build a local branch
> that hasn't been pushed to the central repo (or maybe I'm just
> particularly thick...). Mostly it just needs a UX review for what the
> most common use cases are and how to provide those without having to
> pass dozens of parms.
> 
> If we provide a standard file, I'd suggest shipping it inside the
> kdesrc-build repo itself so it is kept updated in step.

There already is kf5-kdepim-build-include int kdesrc-build repo which  works. 
It's not perfect, but 

kdesrc-build kdepimlibs kdepim kdepim-runtime

will give you everything you need.

Dan

> 
> And yes, I realise I just volunteered myself for writing some of that...
> 
> John.
> _______________________________________________
> 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)

GPG Key: 0x4D69557AECB13683
Fingerprint: 0ABD FA55 A4E6 BEA9 9A83 EA97 4D69 557A ECB1 3683
-------------- 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-pim/attachments/20150818/aa4b7d9b/attachment.sig>
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
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/