On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:07:32 Anderson Torres wrote:
> Hello, TDE hackers!
>
> I am now working on packaging TDE to NixOS Linux distribution. I will
> resume an earlier work I have made a long time ago, but for all
> purposes it will be a long and challenging "TDE from Scratch" task.
>
> As I read the wiki on building TDE from sources, I found there are a
> bit heterogeneous build system: some old apps use Autotools, and the
> new ones use Cmake. If the build system were homogeneous, it would be
> a bit easier (for me at least :P) to maintain the Nix expressions.
>
> So, I want to ask two things:
>
> 1 - There is some intent on wipe Autotools and adopt Cmake on all TDE tree?
> 2 - If yes to 1: how can I help on it?
>
> Thanks in Advance!
> Anderson Torres
>
This makes me wish that my spare-time C++ study was a bit more advanced, so I 
could volunteer to help. Using KDevelop to learn on, so I haven't had to 
meddle with makefiles yet.

I've been playing with NixOS since the Baboon release. TDE on NixOS will be a 
very tasty combination.

RG