Merging "generic project manager" and "custom buildsystem"

[Aleksey Midenkov]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2014 15:29:35 Aleix Pol wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > a user just noticed that the custom buildsystem KCM was shown in the
>> > project
>> > configuration dialog. I'll try to find out why that is and ensure its not
>> > being show there.
>> >
>> > But it did made me wonder: Do we want to bother a user with this decision?
>> > Couldn't we just make the "custom buildsystem" our "generic project
>> > manager"
>> > and be done with it?
>> >
>> > The generic manager is mostly useful for simple script projects and
>> > similar,
>> > which are also nicely handled by the custom build system with an empty
>> > configuration - no?
>> >
>> > Furthermore, once a script project becomes a bit more involved, having a
>> > way
>> > to run a script to deploy the project somewhere or similar might be nice
>> > to
>> > have, and with the custom buildsystem you'd get that for free, no?
>> >
>> > Opinions?
>>
>> I like the idea. Can we just consider generic project manager deprecated
>> and only go with Custom BuildSystem?
>
> Yes, but we'll have to move the CBS into kdevplatform. Furthermore, I think I
> prefer "generic project manager" over the "custom buildsystem" name.
>
> So we'd merge the latter into the former, thereby essentially deprecating it.
>

When you'll be merging, please take into account bug 335470.