On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Eric Noulard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/7/26 Mathieu Malaterre <[email protected]>: >> Eric, >> >> You have my blessing, if this was your question. > > Thanks, I have some more questions. > > Some of the patch proposal will add dependencies on > debian specific tools (dpkg-xxx). > > I know you wanted to make debian generator run even if > debian tools were not installed (i.e. building a deb on rpm based distros). > > Alex seems to think that being independent of dpkg-xxx tools > http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-November/025030.html > > So what should we do? > > 1) Use dpk-XXX when they are found and then fallback to "autonomous > [may be less-powerfull] mode" > if they are not found? > > 2) Avoid ANY dependencies on dpk-XXX ? > > I would vote for 1) because I found 2) too restrictive, however there > may be a 3rd option which > would be to create a new DEB2 CPack generator which requires dpkg-xxx tools?
I would go for (1) as this has been the case before (see ref to dpkg --print-architecture). Thanks a bunch for stepping up ! I would not go for a new DEB2 package generator, unless this would be a debian/* generator (more like src generator). This would be of fantastic help to user, and would make cmake the #1 build generator for debian based distro. HTH -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list [email protected] http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
