Please start testing kde-builder if using kdesrc-build

[rokejulianlockhart]

@Ashark

Many KDE developers already heard of kde-builder - a replacement for kdesrc-build. But if you did not - it is a reimplementation of kdesrc-build, rewritten in Python. The goal of the project is that it is much easier to hack on/contribute to the Python project vs Perl project.

If you are using kdesrc-build tool, please try out kde-builder: SDK / KDE Builder · GitLab

In the end, the kdesrc-build would be archived. And when introducing big changes, such as for example, metadata format update, we would need to code in only one tool. The kdesrc-build would then become incompatible. This is why it is important to ensure that everybody is switched, and not staying with kdesrc-build because “it works for you currently.”

@Ashark, as a new contributor (if I can yet be referred to as such), having some documentation advise installing kdesrc-builder, and other advise installing kde-builder, has confused me at times: ^[1]

invent.kde.org/websites/kate-editor-org/-/blob/f12bb8d3352fd91f15f0dcfe4b392e0c0315dc3c/content/build-it.md?plain=1#L55 cites community.kde.org/index.php?title=Get_Involved/development&oldid=103993#The_main_way_to_develop_KDE_software, which cites invent.kde.org/documentation/develop-kde-org/-/blob/2babe62531c032570c4f4b4a31a1b4255d49c606/content/docs/getting-started/building/kde-builder-setup/index.md, which, per discuss.kde.org/t/13698, appears to replace kdesrc-build with kde-builder, to the extent that kdesrc-build may be deprecated soon.

Although documentation shall eventually be improved when the replaced tool has been formally deprecated, can they live alongside each other in the meantime?

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1. bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507599#c12 ↩︎