On Friday, 2013-12-20, 19:02:06, Duncan wrote: > Cruceru Calin posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:20:43 +0200 as excerpted: > > I heard from a friend about KDE and since I have knowledge about C++, > > which is the main used programming language ( from what i heard and read > > ), I decided to get involved and find out more about KDE. > > > > I have already read almost everything from the Getinginvolved website > > but as it is mentioned at some point, getting started may be pretty > > hard, so I need assistance. > > > > Firstly, I need to know more about what software I need in order to > > start repairing bugs and working in a KDE environment and then, how > > exactly I do this. I found the list with the junior-jobs but I cannot > > find any source code there, so I'm a little bit confused. > > I'm not a developer myself, so I had waited for someone else more > qualified to respond. But I don't see a response yet (maybe people are > on Christmas vacation already?), so I'll try to answer what I can.
Myriam forwarded it to kde-devel, which is a better place to get answers for development related questions. But one of us who read both list should probably have said so here. Anyway, thanks a lot Duncan for stepping up and providing really good information :) > Software needed? > > Obviously gcc and the like for compiling things, plus cmake since that's > what runs kde's make scripts, and qt4, as a major kde dependency.[1] > Most of kde now uses git repos for distributed version control, tho there > are a few bits (mainly artwork and the like, as git works best with > source files not binaries) still using subversion, so you'll definitely > need git and possibly subversion, for version control. Both kde and qt > have development tools (the kdevelop and qdevelop development > environments) that can help as well, but AFAIK they're not mandatory. Right, there is no requirement to use any particular editor or tool set. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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