Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-23 Thread Ben Cooksley
Hi all, I've been working on the new CI system recently, and as part of this have run into a few issues with some projects. Most of these have been easily resolved. KWave however is another ball park entirely and has to date cost at least 5 base system image rebuilds (quite likely higher) and qui

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-23 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El dimarts, 23 de maig de 2017, a les 19:53:29 CEST, Ben Cooksley va escriure: > Hi all, > > I've been working on the new CI system recently, and as part of this > have run into a few issues with some projects. Most of these have been > easily resolved. > > KWave however is another ball park enti

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Tue, 23 May 2017 23:37:25 +0200 Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > On the actual problem, as a workaround, have you tried "apt-get > build-dep kwave" or the "synonymous" command in whatever OS the image > you're using has? My guess is that it would pull also the KDE software dependencies,

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il giorno Tue, 23 May 2017 23:37:25 +0200 > Albert Astals Cid ha scritto: > >> On the actual problem, as a workaround, have you tried "apt-get >> build-dep kwave" or the "synonymous" command in whatever OS the image >> you're using has? > >

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 23 de maig de 2017, a les 19:53:29 CEST, Ben Cooksley va escriure: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working on the new CI system recently, and as part of this >> have run into a few issues with some projects. Most of these have been

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Eschenbacher wrote: > Hi all, > > I have no idea what all these complains are about. Nobody ever > complained about the quality of Kwave's build system in the last 18 > years in such a way and nobody had a serious problem with the dependencies. Please obser

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:37:25 PDT Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Let me try to comment on the wording of this email first. > > I think this is not the correct way to handle the problem. I think the wording could have used a better version, but the message seems to be correct and to the point. >

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-24 Thread Luca Beltrame
Il giorno Thu, 25 May 2017 09:25:02 +1200 Ben Cooksley ha scritto: [Quoting Ben but responding to Thomas, since I'm not subscribed to kde-buildsystem] > > complained about the quality of Kwave's build system in the last 18 > > years in such a way and nobody had a serious problem with the > > dep

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-05-26 Thread Shaheed Haque
I just added that gem to https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/CMake/FAQs. On 25 May 2017 06:08, "Luca Beltrame" wrote: Il giorno Thu, 25 May 2017 09:25:02 +1200 Ben Cooksley ha scritto: [Quoting Ben but responding to Thomas, since I'm not subscribed to kde-buildsystem] > > complain

Re: Extremely poor quality of KWave's build system

2017-06-30 Thread Thomas Eschenbacher
Hi all, I have no idea what all these complains are about. Nobody ever complained about the quality of Kwave's build system in the last 18 years in such a way and nobody had a serious problem with the dependencies. The dependencies are well documented in the README file, in the online documentati