Compiling KDevelop5 for newbies, where?

[Kevin Funk]

On Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:27:57 AM CEST Arthur Gruzauskas wrote:
> Thank you Kevin, for your reply.
> 
> Two issues.
> 
> 1) It really needs to be accessible from the main page,
> https://www.kdevelop.org
> 
> 2) Links to my approach are missing in item 6.

No idea where that is gone. Some volunteers moved some pages from Techbase to 
Community Wiki a while ago; probably that got lost?

Please check and link it to the new wiki page on community.kde.org if 
possible!

> To me, Issue 1) is more important. If you are looking around for ways to
> actually use this superb tool, it should be available on the main page of
> KDevelop.
> 
> If it is hard to find, folk will move on. That is a needless loss to the
> community.

I agree, and sorry for that. The KDevelop website is just being upgraded/
restructured, it's in the flux at the moment. We'll work on it.

Cheers,
Kevin

> Arthur
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 3:15:52 PM Kevin Funk wrote:
> > On Thursday, March 31, 2016 12:09:43 AM CEST Arthur Gruzauskas wrote:
> > > There used to be a page devoted to compiling KDevelop5 at
> > > https://techbase.kde.org/KDevelop5/HowToCompile
> > 
> > It moved to:
> >   https://community.kde.org/KDevelop/HowToCompile_v5
> > 
> > ... just recently.
> > 
> > Sorry for the confusion.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> > 
> > > It included an approach that seemed to compile the whole of KDE Plasma 5
> > > to
> > > get our beloved KDevelop v5.
> > > 
> > > And a little annotation at the bottom showed my still working method of
> > > compiling just KDevelop5 for Debian based distributions like Debian &
> > > Ubuntu.
> > > 
> > > It's all gone, just an unuseful stub left.
> > > 
> > > I looked around, but I can't see any accessible page for compiling the
> > > current v5 version anywhere.
> > > 
> > > I've been using KDevelop since v2 or so, and so I am somewhat familiar
> > > with
> > > it.  I strongly suspect I may be stupid, but perhaps it is even harder
> > > for
> > > others even less familiar than myself.
> > > 
> > > I feel that to get newbies interested, and grow our community, you need
> > > to
> > > have a way of getting them to actually access this wonderful tool.
> > > 
> > > https://www.kdevelop.org/ is the main site, and I cannot find a link
> > > from
> > > there to actually use v5 anymore.
> > > 
> > > Is there a page which shows how to compile KDevelop V5 anywhere obvious?
> > > 
> > > I fully accept that my method may have been poor, but i see the need for
> > > a
> > > compilation page as essential for wider acceptance.
> > > 
> > > Arthur, who may be very blind to something obvious
> > > 
> > > 
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