From: Jeroen W. <je...@wi...> - 2006-11-21 19:07:55
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Michel Ludwig wrote: >Hi all, > >I propose to use CMake as build system for Kile 2.0, although the version 2.0 >will probably still be a KDE 3.x release. The two main reasons are that the >switch will be necessary for KDE 4 anyway, and that conditional linking will >(most likely) be easier to realise with CMake. For example, I plan to use the >KNewStuff classes for the downloading of new scripts, but KNewStuff is only >available from KDE 3.3 onwards. So, Kile 2.0 could then still be compiled on >KDE 3.2, only without the script downloading feature. > > Hi, Conditional compilation and linking is also possible with automake, but that is actually besides the point. Having an extra dependency on CMake is most likely going to be a problem for most users. Especially since we do not provide binary packages. So I propose to have the two buildsystems in parallel, or wait for the KDE 4 port. best, Jeroen |