[Kde-scm-interest] Meeting minutes

[Ian Monroe]

2009/11/12 Michael Pyne <mpyne at kde.org>:
> On Thursday 12 November 2009 14:46:47 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> > On Thursday 12. November 2009 19.05.25 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> > >        -> write a script to clone, update and build everything, like
>> > > kde-svn (TASK: Morice).=
>> >
>> > What does this mean?
>>
>> What is unclear about it? It simply means that there has to be a script
>>  like kde-svn-build that can clone, update and build everything.
>
> Now I did catch the meeting late but how similar to kdesvn-build are we
> talking about?  kdesvn-build can already build qt-copy and amarok from git so
> I'm not sure what we're missing...
>
> Don't take this the wrong way as if there's a different build script to do
> that same job that's one less thing for me to maintain.  But I don't see the
> reasoning for a rewrite, especially when my impression of work needed from
> when we had talking on this list months ago was along the lines of "port
> kdesvn-build" instead of "rewrite kdesvn-build".

Well the difference is the tool is going to be reading an
authoritative file that describes KDE and more emphasis on simply
cloning.

The idea now isn't rewriting things but just extending mjansen's ruby
build tool.

Ian