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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] [RFC] kdelibs4-devel and cmake macros</H1>
    <B>Colin Guthrie</B> 
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Matteo at 01/09/12 14:12 did gyre and gimble:
&gt;<i> On 01/09/2012 14:36, Angelo Naselli wrote:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hi, I recently had to work with some cmake macros and i found that
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> they were already on the system installing kdelibs4-devel. I am a
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> KDE user and developer so it's not a big problem for me, but some
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> colleagues are not. Now isn't be possible to have a
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> kdelibs4-cmake-macros package? I think that can be useful for those
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> who don't want to install a lot of kde developer packages and get
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> benefit by using already developed macros.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> WDYT? Angelo
</I>&gt;<i> +1
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Just for example, currently I need FindGLIB2.cmake to port an
</I>&gt;<i> application from an old style makefile to cmake but the application is
</I>&gt;<i> not based on kde and I can't make kdelibs4 a requirement.
</I>&gt;<i> To avoid this requirement I've to implement FindGLIB2 functionalities
</I>&gt;<i> into the main CMakeLists.txt but it is not that comfortable.
</I>
This doesn't sound like a good reason to me. Surely any porting work
you'll be doing you'll want to push upstream. Would upstream be happy
adding a dependency on KDE macros? I wouldn't expect so. Thus the
approach you've taken just now seems like a good one.

Col


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