CMake!

[Horst H. von Brand]

Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes:
> > On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 01:20 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > Oh, and I think that cmake is a big trainwreck.
> > I share this view. Cmake is imake in new clothes and suffers from the
> > same design flaws as imake did.
> 
> Like for example?

> The complaints I've read about imake is that it has tables for what
> systems have what properties and that you had to maintain those. Assuming
> that's true (I haven't actually used imake), that's very different from
> how CMake works. CMake can do configure checks just like autoconf, the
> difference is that it won't waste time on tests you didn't ask for (and
> thus won't use the results of anyway), like the existence of ubiquitous
> ISO C90 headers like <string.h> or ubiquitous ISO C90 functions like
> memcpy and memset.

Sorry, but either you cater to all strange systems out there (autotools and
it's ilk) or target a narrow subset. The later is easier, the former
implies looking if some stuff that "normal" systems have (_of course_) are
present... can't have both.

> > It's only the limited set of requirements being used by the limited set
> > of use cases it's proponents apply which lets them think "cmake is
> > better".

Limiting yourself to the range of stuff really relevant is good advise...

> CMake is used by all of KDE 4, and several other projects have switched
> to CMake following that example (or in some cases, because the KDE
> Window$ porters did the port for them), and I'm not aware of anyone
> having switched back.

Yes. But what was proposed here is switching /all/ packages using those to
cmake (or some such). Won't happen. And doing it in Fedora only is madness.
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