On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com>wrote:
> Rodolfo Lima wrote: > >> John Drescher escreveu: >> >>> install screen >>> >> >> Thanks for the tip but that's not my point in this whole thread (i.e. >> I'm not looking for solutions, I'm giving one). >> >> CMake does so much complicate things to make working with software >> projects a seamless experience across different platforms that I doubt >> that automatically managing a symlink tree is such a huge effort. >> >> You know, there's workarounds for everything. Before cmake I wrote a gcc >> wrapper to make its output look like what cmake does to it. If this >> wasn't implemented in cmake and I come up with this idea, people would >> say "but you can write a wrap to gcc to filter its output, why bother?". >> >> That's how I see some suggestions in this thread. IMHO cmake came to be >> when people were sick of workarounds (like autotools) to manage >> projects. So why resort to workarounds like we used to do when better, >> seamless solutions exist? (I'm talking in the point of view of someone >> that doesn't use IDE's). >> >> I just think we already have a solution for out of source builds. The > symlink approach is yet another way to do the get the same thing done. There > are tools out there that create sym-link trees (I can not remember the name, > but I saw it once...) Basically, I think this is a can of worms that we > can do without as it does not really add that much. I also think you > underestimate the complexity and support of this feature. > I agree with Bill -- it's a can of worms. Anybody who has a significantly large source tree will just jump up and down and scream and yell for a way to turn this 'symlink feature' off if somebody did implement it in CMake. Nobody wants CMake to be any slower than necessary, and implementing a feature like this would certainly slow it down... David
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