From kde-core-devel  Tue Mar 14 14:07:37 2006
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:07:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: The Technical Working Group's mission statement
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Andras Mantia wrote:
>Was there a real decision somewhere on a public list?

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>as to 'the procedure' i suppose you are referring to the procedure as to
> how the decision was made? to be honest, i have no idea how the
> decision was made: i skipped 99% of the build system threads because
> they bore me to tears and i trust others have a handle on it (given the
> length of the threads, i should hope so ;).

I thought it was pretty clear to anyone involved in the buildsystem that=20
cmake is our only option here. And, just so that it is clear: this was no=20
TWG decision. It's a simple situation that stems from fact that cmake is=20
being actively worked on and no other system is.

This has been being discussed for many months now in=20
kde-buildsystem@kde.org. Sometime ago, we realised that scons wasn't=20
going forward at the speed we wanted it to. And we had no support from=20
the scons developers. And to top all that, Thomas Nagy, the developer=20
working on it, suddenly found himself without the time or Internet=20
connection to continue the work.

scons support died then.

Back in aKademy, in M=E1laga, we decided that we wanted something new, to=20
drop autoconf + automake + unsermake + libtool + am_edit. People have=20
objections to autoconf syntax; we have real issues using libtool.

So, from the alternatives:
1) stay as it is
2) scons/bksys
3) cmake
two are out.

Is there really any doubt which system we'll use for KDE 4? Add to the=20
equation that we need a buildsystem working  *real* *soon*. We can't=20
develop KDE if we can't build it.

Unless, of course, we go back on our decision from M=E1laga and say, "ok,=20
we'll keep using autotools for KDE 4.0".

PS: the "procedure" was the removal of Scons files and deprecation of the=20
auto* ones.
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