Hi Atul,

I generally agree with you that it is better NOT to bundle cppunit with Calitko.

I have however some other considerations, which make me think it is better to do so. I’m completely open about changing my mind about this. I’d like to get feedback about that from as many Calitko developers as possible.

There is already a whole bunch of tools and libraries that one must install in order to be able to even build Calitko and even more in order to contribute. On the one side that is good, because people learn more new stuff. On the other side, they may have too much new stuff to learn. People could either get bored before finishing or, if they are not that experienced, they could find it too difficult and give up. The more hurdles we put, the more people will fall into the second group. Now, one could think that that is good because only really very good people, or ones with very strong desire to learn, will be able to get started. That might be true, but still I’d prefer to make getting started as easy as possible because the hard part is coming right after that. What do you guys think? Since most of you have just recently joined, what was your experience?

I wish I could use my patched qmake instead of the original one but doing so would require everybody to download the Qt source, patch it and build and install it. I don’t believe that everybody will be willing to do so.

One last think we should not forget is that not everybody uses Linux. Actually most of the guys that have already registered use Windows only. I agree installing cppunit, or any other library from source or binary (that’s pretty easy nowadays) is not a big deal for Linux/Unix users, but that may not be so easy for Windows users. Also we cannot assume cppunit is in /usr/local/ under Windows.

Any comments are welcome!

Thanks,

Peter

atul wrote:Dear Peter

Like we don’t bundle Qt with calitko…

I think we should also not bundle cppunit…. instead

people can easily build it the usual way ( ./configure && make && make install )

And gnu software usually by default gets installed in /usr/local/… So we can assume that while writing our make files….

What do you think?

— cheers atul