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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE rant
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-04-04 11:56:58
Message-ID: 200704040556.59022.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 04 April 2007, David Johnson wrote:
> Why is it that developing on KDE (4) made so difficult?  It almost seems
> deliberate.

of course it's not deliberate; i'm sorry it's been difficult for you, perhaps 
that can be sorted out.

> I have written a shell script for building so I don't have to remember all
> the steps, but everytime I get ready to do some more hacking, I have to
> change my script again.

what does your script do that you are having to make changes so often? the 
last change was a few weeks ago when strigi was made a requirement. otherwise 
it's generally the same dance of svn up and build kdelibs, kdebase and 
whatever other modules you care to. when qt-copy is updated (which happens 
relatively rarely) then you may need to build that as well (we just updated 
to qt 4.3 recently). things are calming down on this front as we aproach the 
various freezes, as well.

as others have mentioned it's probably easier to use kdesvn-build than your 
own script, in any case.

> Then I bookmark pages that tell me how to build 
> KDE, but they're always out of date when I get back to them.

which pages are you looking at? there is exactly one page you should be 
looking at:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4

and it is kept up to date.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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