Questions About the New Schedule

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Mon Oct 1 14:39:10 CEST 2007


On 01.10.07 13:57:50, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007 10:37:06 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 01.10.07 06:30:25, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 8. September 2007, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > > 5)  Should language bindings be part of the development platform?
> > > > > Richard Dale says "Python and Ruby in good shape by late October, and
> > > > > possibly C# too."
> > > >
> > > > If Richard says he can do it, i say we can try it :-)
> > >
> > > Thats not enough. somebody has at least to be able to confirm that the
> > > bindings *compile*. right now, kdebindings does not compile, and after I
> > > spent an hour or so looking, I'm sure that it can not compile for anyone
> > > at all, given the fundamental bugs in the build system.
> > >
> > > it is my understanding that Richard uses a completely different build
> > > system to maintain the bindings, at least thats what he used to do in
> > > KDE3 times. There has to be at least somebody who maintains the official
> > > build system, and that person has to be != me.
> >
> > Same thing applies to the python bindings, but those are not buildable
> > with cmake and I don't see why they should be.
> 
> I understand that Simon Edwards is working on making them compile with cmake. 

I wasn't aware of that, I know he provides a app template that uses
CMake as buildsystem, but I didn't know he wanted to provide
cmake-build-support for the bindings themselves.

Andreas

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