[Ktechlab-devel] workflow for kde4 development

[Julian Bäume]

moin,
as promised, I'm going to write some lines, about my development-workflow. 
Let's start with SCM. I'm using git, because I sometimes don't have a working 
connection to the Internet when developing. (Or it's damn slow.. and SVN, 
especially on sf.net is a PITA when it's slow ;)) I haven't found any nice GUI 
front-end for git, so I am working in a terminal. I used to have git cheat-
sheets flying around on my desk, but they aren't necessary any longer. Some 
time ago, I wrote some hints about git in a terminal into the wiki, so I won't 
explain this in detail, here.

Concerning KDE development, I learned most of my "tricks" on 
http://techbase.kde.org ;) Especially these slides of David Faure helped me a 
lot and did fit quite good into my programming habits. You can find them here: 
http://web.davidfaure.fr/scripts/
For my zsh I use the grml config (Which should fit most into debian-based 
systems, but it's working great for me on openSUSE and gentoo). You can find 
it here: http://grml.org/zsh/
I just use David's find_up method to load a special .my-setup file which sets 
all that KDE specific stuff (described by David and on techbase) for my 
~/projects/kde/ folder.

Since some time I am using KDevelop to actually hack on KDE code. It offers 
some nice features and is also stable enough to work with it. This is straight 
forward, I just imported the project and started hacking. I adjusted some 
environment variables, to match to my setup and after that compiling works. I 
had some problems with installing and running (especially in gdb). This 
situation should improve with the next release of KDevelop. For now, I just 
switch into Konsole and just use cmakekde (from techbase) in the .my-setup 
environment I described earlier.

Well.. I hope that helped in one way or the other.. Any comments or questions 
are welcome :)

bye then
julian
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