RE: C++ build options

[Steve Huston <sh...@riverace.com>]

Picking up from end of January...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cliff Jansen (Interop Systems Inc) 
> [mailto:v-cljans@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:48 PM
>
> Alan Conway wrote: 
> > I'd be interested in cmake only if it gives us significantly
> > smaller/simpler build files that are easier to maintain. The KDE
> > writeup suggested that might be the case but someone would 
> really have
> > to try it to know.
> [...]
> > I'd really like to give cmake a chance before we extend autotool's
> > reign of terror.
> >
> > Would you consider trying to hack up a cmake build, at 
> least enough to
> > get a feel for the size of the task?
> 
> I will gladly do so and report back ASAP.

I'm also planning to work further in this area (I've talked with
Cliff) and am eager to know if anyone has any further up/down opinion
of Cmake, since that's the likely first option to work on.

-Steve


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