16–17 May 2026
Berlin, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone

BuildStream, KDE and reflecting on software compilation

17 May 2026, 12:20
40m
Berlin, Germany

Berlin, Germany

Presentation (40 min) Main Track

Speaker

Mr Aleix Pol Gonzalez (KDE)

Description

In recent months I've been exploring further the adoption of BuildStream in KDE with the goal to improve how we deliver our software. I'll discuss how this affects the compilation of KDE's flatpak runtime, KDE's flatpak applications and KDE Linux.

This work will be contra-posed to the status quo, namely the usage of flatpak-builder, ArchLinux packages for KDE Linux and the many other tools we might find on the way.

The bulk of the work in this presentation has been sponsored by Codethink.

Author(s) Bio

Aleix has been a KDE developer for many years now with contributions on many of its projects. Aleix is also the KDE e.V. President and member of the LAS organisation team.

Twitter and/or Mastodon Handle

@AleixPol@fosstodon.org

Participation In-person
Track Main Track
Level of Difficulty Intermediate
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Primary author

Mr Aleix Pol Gonzalez (KDE)

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