How to work on KDevelop with KDevelop

[Igor Kushnir]

Hi Benjamin,

I have created a HACKING.md file in the WIP 
https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/215. The 
RUN_KDEVELOP_UNINSTALLED CMake option does not exist and likely will never be 
added because of its downsides. But other than that, the HACKING.md could be a 
good starting point. Since creating and updating a file in KDevelop repository 
is more straightforward than updating the website, we could complete and commit 
the HACKING.md, then simply point potential developers to it from the website.

Thanks,
Igor

On 2024-02-24 15:24, Benjamin Huth wrote:
> Thanks to both of you, Sven and Igor!
> 
> Actually I was unaware of the fact that the session each launch an own instance, 
> I always thought that there is just an additional MainWindow created...
> 
> But that makes it all far more easy to setup now, especially with your pointers, 
> Igor.
> 
> After having done this, I actually wonder if it wouldn't be nice to add this 
> info e.g. to https://kdevelop.org/contribute-kdevelop/, because actually the 
> information currently on the website is not super helpful with that... There is 
> also only described the build with kdesrc-build, but it seems like that it is 
> also quite common to just build against the system libraries (which I did as 
> well, and which is simpler in my opinion...)
> 
> I would be willing to draft/rewrite these parts on the website, but I don't know 
> how to get started with this...
> 
> Cheers,
> Benjamin