I looked at the cmake project page. Seems really great...
I might adopt it for my own projects.
Best.
Pierre.
Nelson Brito wrote:
> I think we users should do some effort here!
> If we have this tool for free the least we can do is to easy the work
> of the developers... i don't see any trouble in dealing with another
> package on our systems!! if we really need some software won't we make
> all the efforts to install it?
> Is not cmake or any other tools proposed to build/install lam
> available?? if not i don't see the point of writing some software that
> can not be used ;-) if they are available why can't we learn how to
> use then and leave the lam developers focus for other challenges?? or
> for better enjoying their weekends :-)
>
> regards,
> nelson
>
>
> Jeff Squyres wrote:
>
>> This is certainly a fair point.
>>
>> However, my concern here is that the configure/build system is an
>> entire sub-system in itself -- it's rather large and complex, which
>> means that it can have plenty of bugs in itself. For example, the
>> current configure/build system is approximately 20,000+ lines of
>> code. The thought of creating and maintaining two sub-systems of
>> this size that perform roughly the same functionality is daunting, to
>> say the least.
>>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Bussoletti, John E wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff,
>>>
>>> It seems you have two problems that your trying to address with a
>>> single
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> On the one hand, for the development process, you want fast builds. On
>>> the other hand you want universal ability to build LAM on a wide
>>> variety
>>> of systems.
>>>
>>> Why insist on a single answer to two problems? It seems to me that you
>>> could use cmake etc internally and, prior to a release, revert back to
>>> the more-widely available toolset automake, autoconf etc.
>>>
>>> John Bussoletti
>>>
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