Bug 292030

Summary: Wish: kdesrc-build-setup could list all availabe kde-git modules and their branches
Product: [Developer tools] kdesrc-build Reporter: J Janz <kde>
Component: setup wizardAssignee: Michael Pyne <mpyne>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: ashark
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: Git   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description J Janz 2012-01-20 12:53:34 UTC 
Version:           git (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

When kdesrc-build-setup prompts current list of modules (by this time, only quite a basic kde desktop setup, with no extras), it could download kde-build-metadata and offer to user all available modules at kde-git (and, if possible, handle dependecies while s/he checks what s/he wants).

Also, maybe as a second step to checked modules, it could let the user select a branch or stick with master (or, else, any defaults kdesrc-build uses, as 4.8 is for qt by this time). Maybe it could display for each of those checked modules the next closest thing to a drop-down (though I don't know if such a thing would be easy to come up with in a char-based GUI) having all branches for that module as its options. Or perhaps, if such a drop-down isn't possible, it could be a nested list to show up.

That'd be the best deal ever for building a user-fully-featured KDE desktop from source!

Reproducible: Didn't try



Expected Results:  
kdesrc-build-setup offering all available modules at kde-git (and possibly handling their dependecies while user checks modules) and, for each those checked, their branches for selection.
Comment 1 J Janz 2012-01-20 20:06:52 UTC 
When I say it could download kde-build-metadata, maybe it'd actually be kde_projects.xml (which I've then -- curiously -- opened and figured out it's the whole list of kde git/svn projects and master and stable branches) or even both (since, snooping kde-build-metadata I found out it's probably more to handle dependencies) ... I'm sorry, I don't know kdesrc-build that well to tell, I only read somewhere what they supposedly would be/do and based on it.
Comment 2 Michael Pyne 2013-01-14 01:54:09 UTC 
For what it's worth I think this is a swell idea (in general, your request is a bit vague), but haven't found enough time to implement.
Comment 3 Andrew Shark 2023-12-02 12:35:25 UTC 
`kdesrc-build-setup` was deleted with this commit: https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdesrc-build/-/commit/036f5092adc382e3cc0e4c5a4946b1dbcb10ec03
Use `kdesrc-build --generate-config` instead.