On Monday 26 July 2010, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > 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
Hmm, I don't have a strong opinion on this anymore, now that you are mostly caring for it. > > 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? Sounds good. > > 2) Avoid ANY dependencies on dpk-XXX ? > > > > I would vote for 1) because I found 2) too restrictive, however there Alex _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list [email protected] http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
