unreleased kdevelop pg and kdev-php dependency

[Milian Wolff]

Aleix Pol, 02.03.2011:
> 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

the generated files lie in the build dir (as they should), and you need to 
copy them by hand to the source dir. Generating them in the source dir is 
dirty imo.

After all, you don't put other generated files (moc, uic, ...) under VCS, do 
you? So lets leave it as is.

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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