unreleased kdevelop pg and kdev-php dependency

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

> Andreas Pakulat, 02.03.2011:
> > On 02.03.11 01:00:27, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > I've just been told that archlinux is not packaging kdev-php support
> > > because there's a kdev-pg-qt dependency and it's not released yet.
>
> There is a stable kdev-pg-qt release. they should use this.
>
> > > I see two issues here:
> > > - Why isn't there a kdev-pg-qt release? It doesn't need to be a 1.0
> > > version, it can be 0.33, but it should be released I think.
> >
> > You mean the released kdev-pg-qt version is not sufficient anymore to
> > generate the parser for kdev-php? Hmm, tried that right now and it does
> > seem to work. The 0.9.0 release of kdev-pg-qt is available on
> > download.kde.org/stable/kdevelop-pg-qt/0.9.0/src/. But I see one
> > problem: kdev-php does not have a FindKDevPG-Qt.cmake file, so finding
> > kdev-pg-qt is unecessarily hard with it. kdev-php should include a copy
> > until kdevelop-pg-qt has switched to cmake-config-files.
>
> this is true, the old "stable" release is supposed to work fine with even
> the
> newest php plugin releases.
>
> but @The_User: maybe a new release is in order?
>
> > > - Why is kdev-pg-qt a kdev-php dependency? The files generated by the
> > > parser generator should be versioned together with the project, so that
> > > the users who want to compile don't have to care about that. It's how
> it
> > > works in most projects anyway...
> >
> > That was the case in the past, I forgot what the reason was for removing
> > that part. Either Milian knows or git log.
>
> because:
>
> a) it's a royal pita to remember to update the generated files
> b) kdevelop-pg-qt is simple to install
> c) 99% of the users don't care as they download packages anyways and this
> is
> just a build-time dependency
>
> meaning: I won't revert this change.
>
you can regenerate just if kdev-pg-qt is found by php, otherwise you can
skip it with a beautiful according cmake message. I don't think it's that
painful...

You're the php guy anyway :) your call


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