On Dec 18, 2007 3:08 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not only waf does not care about Windows but they explicitly do > not want to support it. That's the reason why KDE4 is using CMake > instead of SCons or waf.
Heh! Well it's no different than the FSF's attitude with GNU Autoconf and GMake. "Screw Windows" is a meme that will die, I think. I mean, as big as Linux has become, Windows is still not going anywhere. We'll be doing cross-platform dances for quite some time. Meanwhile you've got Macs emulating Windows or dual-booting Windows because that's what consumers actually want. MS has majorly screwed up with Vista, but I don't think the Linux crowd is profiting from that, I think Apple is. I think we're all pretty settled that Autoconf and GMake are gonna die. It's only a question of what tools people will migrate to. I agree with Alan that CMake will gain many converts in the near term. I don't agree that it has to stay that way. You know, in a lot of ways the FSF is guilty of providing us with really stable stuff, but really old stuff. For instance, the FSF couldn't get GNU/Hurd done, so GNU/Linux took over. "Screw Windows" is all very fine and well, but if the pace of your R&D is glacial, the rest of the open source industry isn't going to sit around waiting for your Windows-killing software. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
