On Wednesday 09 August 2006 21:44, William A. Hoffman wrote: > At 07:26 PM 8/9/2006, Matt Rogers wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Would the CMake developers be interested in patches that allows people to > > use their already installed libraries such as curl, expat, libtar, etc. > > on certain platforms and fallback to the in-source libraries if they're > > not installed? > > > >Initially, I think this would be great for unix/linux based platforms that > >generally come with these libraries already installed or very easily > >available and then can be extended out into the windows world later (when > > I have information on how to actually do it? > > Sorry I don't think we would be interested, and we would like to discourage > such efforts. There is the occasional bug fix in the CMake version of > these libs. I don't want to be tracking down odd problems on platform X > and find out at the end of the day it was a curl bug from the platform. > Also, I am not sure what you would get out of this. CMake would build a > bit fast and use a little bit less disk, but those "C" libraries build > really quick anyway. > > However, I suspect that your motivation comes from your desire to integrate > CMake into KDevelop which will use the system libraries, or some of its > own. If that is the route that we take with the KDevelop CMake > integration, then we would be more accommodating. >
okie dokie. no worries. i'm not really concerned from the kdevelop integration point of view. It just seemed like a nice thing to do. -- Matt _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
