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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: A few questions
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2007-10-04 9:13:20
Message-ID: 20071004091320.GA27184 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 03.10.07 19:12:32, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Eligio Becerra Zavala wrote:
> > Hello everybody
> > 
> > I'm trying to become a KDE developer, and so far I've been able to 
> > build KDE4 from SVN (following techbase howto), but I still have a 
> > few questions about running and developing KDE4
> > 
> > Which is the best way to develop on KDE4? Solitary session, Nested
> > session? 
> 
> The best way to test something is to use a solitary session with a KDE4 
> test user account.  Any other way and you run the risk of missing bugs. 
>   This is very simple to do with KDE, just "Switch User :: Start New 
> Session:.
> 
> I have to say that the same is true of the method in the techbase howto. 
>   If you install in: $HOME/kde rather than /usr/local/KDE-4.0. (note 
> that "/local" is optional) you run the same risks.

Hmm, I agree with the "use fresh user" thing (although in that case you
miss bugs that come up because you use existing configuration), but I
can't imagine what bugs you can find by changing the installation
directory to usr/locla/<something. In fact some months ago I found a few
(buildsystem) bugs because I installed into $HOME/kde4/<module> (which
takes quite more work to setup the env for though). - Just curious.

Andreas

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