sorry... too hard

[Simon St James]

Hi D.R.,

On Saturday 27 December 2008 16:04:58 D. R. Evans wrote:
> Sanity finally set in.
>
> I thought that it would take an hour or two to write a fairly trivial
> plasmoid, just to get my feet wet.
>
> After more than thirty hours of work, I realise that I'm not even remotely
> close to having a system capable of building one. And I haven't even
> written a line of code yet. So I'm just calling it quits.

I noticed that you were trying to build a development VM, and I think you 
might(?) have been trying to write a Python Plasmoid.  If that's the case, 
and you're willing to try again, you might want to try out my project, 
KDE4Daily:

http://dot.kde.org/1228930911/

Setting up a C++ environment inside it might be slightly tricky (or it could 
equally just be a case of downloading a few packages: I've not really tried), 
but it *should* be Python-Plasmoid-Capable from the outset, although I have 
not tested this at all thoroughly.

This reminds me: I've been vaguely toying with the idea of releasing the 
chroot used for building KDE4Daily (named, appropriately enough, 
Khrooty4Daily) which should enable you to compile damn near anything from 
KDE's svn straight from the get-go.  I don't really know much about the 
security etc implications of providing a chroot, though.  Maybe I'll blog and 
gather experiences/ feedback when I get back home to my dev machine ...

Best Wishes,
Simon