CMake!

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 00:44 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Braden McDaniel <braden <at> endoframe.com> writes:
> > And we're done.  This thread has become a place for build system zealots 
> > rant without any regard to finding a pragmatic solution to the problem 
> > at hand and without consideration for those who might wish to do so.  Enjoy.
> 
> Sorry for having performed long-term thinking and foresight. I am aware of how 
> horrible a crime that is and how we should never plan for any longer than the 
> next 30 minutes. So let us spend hours debating on how to perform the various 
> one-line changes needed to support the newest version of libtool, because 
> that's oh so hard, and let us forget the fact that other build systems even 
> exist: who would commit such a heresy as to use them?
> 
> Disclaimer: The above paragraph MAY contain sarcasm. (In the same sense that a 
> bag of peanuts MAY contain peanuts.)

And once again you miss the point: changing packages' build systems
wholesale is *never* going to be the right thing for Fedora to do.
Promoting a particular build system for participation in such a task is
not "long term planning", it's noise.

If you really care about getting projects to switch to CMake, swim
upstream.

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Braden McDaniel                           e-mail: <braden at endoframe.com>
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