Re: [evolution-patches] Getting e-d-s working with gnome-build

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Here's some more screenshots. Developing e-d-s just got a little bit more fun :-)

http://www.pvanhoof.be/files/eds-in-gnome-build.png

http://www.pvanhoof.be/files/eds-in-anjuta-02.png

http://www.pvanhoof.be/files/eds-in-anjuta-01.png


On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 00:37 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

Hi there,


This rather strange patch will remove the fact that all the "targetdir" variables are declared in the configure.in file.

You see the thing is, these days some IDE's will try to parse the Makefile.am files. Gnome-build (which you can find in cvs.gnome.org) is such a parser being used by a popular development environment (Anjuta 2.0). Gnome-build, however, won't succeed in parsing a Makefile.am where the target isn't complete (for example where the targetdir variable isn't specified). Therefore , and since Anjuta uses gnome-build, e-d-s can't be used with a IDE like Anjuta 2.0.

This patch will modify that. It will put the targetdir variables in the Makefile.am's. Since the locations depend on variables like API_VERSION they shouldn't be changed manually anyhow. They aren't locations that change often or frequently. And not much developers want to specify the location would the build-environment instruct the pre-compiler to alter filepaths if a developer would do this.

So I don't see any good reason for putting it in the configure.in file. And since doing that does cause that some useful tools, like gnome-build, get confused; I'd prefer it to be like most Makefile.am/configure.in combinations.

I also attached a screenshot which shows that after you apply this patch, the gnome-build test application will successfully load e-d-s by parsing it's Makefile.am infrastructure.

Making it possible to develop the different Evolution components using IDE's like Eclipse (Some Eclipse developers are planning to start using gnome-build in the CDT plugin of Eclipse -- I talked to Andrew and Ben  on GUADEC about this --), will make it more easy for newcomers to join the Evolution project. It's my opinion that therefore, we shouldn't ignore the different development tools and environments (like Eclipse, Anjuta, etcetera).

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