Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-23 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Chris Osborn wrote: I certainly understand the benefits of being able to seamlessly regenerate project files. My frown my mostly a reflection of what the faces of the rest of my team looked like when I told them they had to modify a CMakeLists.txt instead of using the Visual Studio project s

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-23 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Luigi Calori wrote: Sorry for the delay in response, but today I' ve been almost ot of office. E. Wing wrote: For example, a GIF library may not be installed on the system. We need to know not to build the osgdb gif plugin. almost done, the problem is wetehe ro notify the user or not: I' m

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-23 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Brandon J. Van Every wrote: Chris Osborn wrote: >And just in case everyone didn't already know, MS VisualStudio projects >generated with CMake still use CMake under the hood. So users wanting to >compile the OSG would always need CMake installed somewhere. It would be >nice i

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-22 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
E. Wing wrote: Only Robert and Don have access. But I think we need to write it as it were going to be committed because it is easy to start using relative paths within scripts and if the layout changes, that will have to be fixed. If we can agree to a stable layout, then we could request gettin

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-22 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Brandon J. Van Every wrote: Chris Osborn wrote: >And just in case everyone didn't already know, MS VisualStudio projects >generated with CMake still use CMake under the hood. So users wanting to >compile the OSG would always need CMake installed somewhere. It would be >nice i

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-22 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Mike Jackson wrote: Personally, I have switched from Xcode to CMake/Eclipse for my C++ dev. CMake with Eclipse? Just using CMake from the command line to generate the makefiles, then having Eclipse do whatever somehow? I just don't recall any integration between CMake and Eclipse. That was

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-22 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Jacob Foshee wrote: I'll also join the CMake listserv, since, yes, documentation is definitely lacking. It's the worst thing about CMake. The problem is, nobody has any time to do anything about it, whether at Kitware or other open source contributors. I think documentation must inevitably

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-22 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Robert Osfield wrote: One thing that does slightly bother me is the yet another script language syndrome. Is there a reason why they dind't adopt Python or Lua? Python is easily dismissed as a large external language dependency. Many people feel it is desireable to avoid additional depende

Re: [osg-users] CMake

2006-08-21 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Mike Jackson wrote: http://openscenegraph.org/archiver/osg-users/2006-August/0590.html is the beginning of the relevant thread. Chris Osborn wrote: >While the script writing was easy to learn, I quickly found myself >limited by its API. Anytime I needed a new feature, if CMake didn't >support

[osg-users] CMake

2006-08-21 Thread Brandon J. Van Every
Hi, I was told that some people are interested in CMake builds for OSG. I tried to search your archives about this using Google, but it seems like a noarchive option must be set for all posts in 2006 or something. I don't have labor to contribute to such a project, but I can answer question