Hello,
CMake support for kdelibs is almost done, but i still need some ideeas:
1) I'm not sure if is good ideea to commit cmake file into svn as is. But
otherwise we can't test/fix it, I think.
2) I need some advices about which options must be ON/OFF by default. Also, we
must to define very clear and in consistent way the names of variable which
enable/disable various options.
3) We need to define in consistent way variable names for standard directories
(for example now the "bin" directory is defined as "BIN_INSTALL_DIR";
but "etc" directory is defined as "SYSCONFDIR" - inconsistent naming,
inherited from kde4 and autotools).
4) I think we must drop support for some (very) obsolete thing, like libalsa <
0.9, hspell (now hebrew spelling support is incorporated in aspell too),
old/unused styles (like riscos). Also, anybody really using "fast malloc"
support?
5) KDE using plenty compiler flags. We really need to use all of them? Maybe
is better ideea to pass cflags options to distro packagers and to keep only
strictly necessary cflags.
6) We need to cleanup a little the code. I found code which are not
compiled/installed at all (for example: [kate/plugins/autobookmarker],
[kdeprint/foomatic], [kdeprint/lpd], [khtml/java], etc).
7) I need help for creating an external svn directory like [admin] for common
cmake macros. As a beginner svn user, I have no ideea how to do it.
8) Must be completed/reviewed tests for cmake configure stage. configure.h is
very large piece of code and is very dificult to made it by just one person.
9) Some dependencies must be required, not optional. For example, bzip2, jpeg
and openssl support, which in these days are available by default on most
current distros.
10) We need to decide how various pieces of trinity will be detect each
another (for building). I'm for extensive using of pkgconfig mechanism, which
seems standard for all modern distros. I succesfully used it for tqtinterface
and arts.
And many more little things... :)
Just for remember, there are my work:
http://www.thel.ro/trinity/kdelibs.html
http://github.com/serghei/kde-trinity-cmake
PS Sorry for my english, I will try to explain better if anybody do not
understand what I want to say :)
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Serghei