On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 04:52:16PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 04/05/2011 16:32, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 03:54:32PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >>* Use CMake as our build system for all platforms > >I am strongly against this. > > I should have said: > > * Use CMake as our _main_ build system for all platforms > > We can of course still keep autotools as an alternative for former > platforms that are only supported by autotools. But CMake is now > basically the default on MAC and Windows and I use it under Linux as > well. So it really deserves to be moved upstream along the source code. > CMake together with CPack, would be useful for rpm and deb generation > under Linux as well.
Sigh... That's how things change. Once upon a time we had the Mac and Windows ports, in the future we will have the Linux port... With all due respect, I don't think that our cmake experts have the level of expertise of our autotool expert(s). -- Enrico
