kdevelop, php and xdebug

[Milian Wolff]

On Freitag, 29. September 2017 08:56:08 CEST santilin wrote:
> Hi, I love developing with KDevelop and I was happy developing in PHP
> with KDevelop4. But recently I had to update my debian to version 9 and
> now, KDevelop5 doesn't have php-xdebug ported.
> 
> I can spare some time (not much really) helping porting php-xdebu to
> KDevelop5, but I must admit that although I have a lot of experience
> with C++ and Qt, I have never used cmake nor KDevelop libraries.
> 
> I have tried to port the CMakeList.txt from php-xdebug to KDevelop5, but
> I am not confident as I am used to the GNU autotools world.

I'll have a quick look now, I actually have a bit of free time on my hands 
right now.

> Then, I would like you to help me decide on the following two options:
> 
> 1) (preferred) Join kdev-xdebug with kdevelop-php so that I can start
> coding quickly as the CMakeList.txt is already ported and I would add
> only the relevant kdev-xdebug files and maybe some libraries
> 
> 2) Have the kdev-xdebug CMakeList.txt ported to KDevelop5 by someone
> with more experience and then I would follow porting the rest of the code.
> 
> 
> The option 1 is my preferred as I have always wanted those plugins to
> come together and I wonder why are they separated.

The reason they are split was mostly a quality aspect: While the kdev-php 
plugin was properly maintained, xdebug was always a bit of a step child, 
especially since Niko left. It's a sad situation, but I also see that the 
reality is that people use it nevertheless. As such, I think spending some 
time on that plugin would be a good idea. Then merging it into kdev-php could 
also be done - but we also need the executebrowser plugin then - which is also 
not properly released/ported yet afaik...

So, I can't make any promises here. But I'll try to make it compile at least 
and then we can see what to do next. If anyone is willing to step up for 
maintainership, it would be a good idea to get these plugins properly 
released.

Cheers

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