SEP
10
2008
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only kdevelop in a virtual machineMany of us know this: You are on KDE version "from yesterday" and suddenly, everything breaks. Maybe someone broke the kompile or it is just a bunch of bad code that went in before your checkout and prevents the window manager from starting. You learn from this mistake, you no longer install to /usr, but you create a dedicated user for your KDE programming fun. Soon, the next painpoints arise:
I kicked both ways to program KDE. I am now using a VMWare Server virtual machine for my programming. Got rid of all problems above. And the best is: I just broke KDE. No problem! I just revert back to the latest snapshot. I am so happy I took this way! |
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