developing pidgin with Kdevelop

[jimmy_yuhai]

thanks, Gary:

so I probably not try Kdevelop.

Jimmy Yuhai




jimmy_yuhai
2008-09-03



发件人： Gary Kramlich
发送时间： 2008-09-02 14:59:57
收件人： Sergey Rudchenko
抄送： jimmy_yuhai; devel
主题： Re: developing pidgin with Kdevelop

Sergey  Rudchenko  wrote:
>  On  Tue,  2008-09-02  at  13:50  +0800,  jimmy_yuhai  wrote:
> >  can  we  import  the  pidgin  source  code  into  KDevelop  IDE?  and  let  it
> >  generate  the  Makefile
> >    
> >  how  to  do  that  ?
> >    
> >  any  ideas?    
>  
>  I  suggest  to  use  the  CMake  (http://www.cmake.org)  it  can  generate
>  KDevelop  projects,  Makefiles,  MSVS  solutions,  XCode  project  and  else.
>  It  is  very  convenient  to  have  single  build  script  for  all  the  platforms.
>  
>  --
>  Best  regards,
>  Sergey  Rudchenko

The  problem  with  cmake  is  that  last  time  i  tried  using  it  (over  a  year
ago  at  least),  i  found  myself  writing  tons  of  dependency  checking,  due
to  a  lack  of  pre-existing  checks  for  the  stuff  I  needed.

I  don't  think  anyone  would  argue  that  a  single  build  system  would  make
things  easier  over  all,  the  problem  is  when  it  comes  to  any
infactructure  change  that  theres  a  lot  that  it  affects.    In  this  case,
it'd  be  all  of  our  build  documentation  (i  think  we  have  some  of  that
;)),  our  documentation  for  writing  3rd  party  plugins,  as  well  as
distributions  that  will  need  to  update  they're  build  stuff  and  all  of
the  packages,  and  most  importantly,  the  developers  need  to  learn  how  to
use  it.

My  experiences  with  cmake  is  that  it  seems  like  a  tool  meant  to  hock
their  book.    Don't  get  me  wrong,  there  is  documentation  on  the  website,
but  it's  very  brief.

At  any  rate,  we  would  of  course  evaluate  all  of  the  available  build
systems,  that  being  autotools  (ie  should  we  switch),  scons,  jam,  cmake,
and  I'm  sure  I'm  missing  some  other  stuff.

To  my  knowledge,  we  have  no  interest  in  changing  right  now,  both  Ethan
and  myself  know  autotools  quite  well,  and  the  rest  of  the  developers
know  it  well  enough,  if  not  better,  to  be  able  to  do  what  they  need  to  do.

--  
Gary  Kramlich   <grim at reaperworld.com >
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