Le Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:43:55 +0200, Yang Tse <yangsita_at_gmail.com> a écrit:

> 2009/3/29, Piotr Dobrogost wrote:
>
>> I'd love to hear Yang Tse opinion on this. He's working on a new nmake
>> makefile for the project and should join this discussion. By the way;
>> how is this work going, Yang?
>
> Some general comments...
>
> I'm another one of the many who on this list have openly admitted not
> having used CMake at all. I might be wrong but I think that the actual
> work-force who have admitted knowing or having used CMake on this list
> is just a couple of persons, and none of them seem to have been around
> here for much time, if these are going to hang around long enough or
> not is something that time will tell. And there has already been at
> least one report of someone which having used it has been badly
> bitten.
>
> Something not technical that truly bothers me, I'm getting old and
> grumpy, is how hard CMake is been pushed all over the net on all
> relevant open source projects by the CMake advocates.
>
> For example, at some point in this thread it has been suggested that
> cmake should replace all already existing build systems for curl and
> libcurl, when the only cmake contribution so far seems to not be able
> to complete the task even for a single platform.
>
> We the not-yet-cmake-believers, or at least me, might be short-seeing
> but wouldn't mind to be shown the powers of the new-religion, oops
> build-system, so good as to justify proposing elimination of other
> build systems on this project.
>
> The day there is enough cmake infrastructure for curl/libcurl capable
> of building what is already possible to get built for a specific
> platform will be the day i'll express my opinion on the matter of
> removing the other build system support for that specific platform.
> Meanwhile my personal view is to certainly not remove it.
>
> On the other hand my motivation to improve MSVC makefiles right now is
> close to zero. I'm awaiting how all this cmake-evangelism turns out,
> letting the dust settle down and postponing further decisions. Who
> wants to work for nothing on something that is going to be discarded?
>
> My 2 cents

Hi,

Good arguments, IMHO. Just wanted to add a side note: as far as I'm concerned, and as I already explained, I don't matter which build system curl/libcurl uses. I just want it to be built easily on platforms it runs on (and at least on platforms I use!).

Sukender
PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/
Received on 2009-03-30