On 15.01.08 12:05:36, Brandon Van Every wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008 11:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15.01.08 11:37:12, Brandon Van Every wrote: > > > I'm unclear. What is the strategic purpose of CBS? > > > > If I understood correctly, the purpose is to (at some point) build > > foobar, including all deps completely with cbs. > > But is it a "higher level" CMake variant, or is it a completely new > build tool that sees CMake as merely 1 of many possible output > targets?
No, AFAIU its using the CMake language to express how to build foo, including building also bar, baz and boo which are direct or indirect deps of foo. > > To me this totally > > sounds like Gentoo with cmake files as "emerge" replacement. > > I'm reading http://linuxreviews.org/man/emerge/ and I don't understand > how CMake could serve as an Emerge replacement. What I meant is, it looks like cbs wants to use CMake to replace the "normal" package manager in a source-based distro. Andreas -- You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one. _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
