Philip Lowman wrote:
Hi,
Luigi suggested a kind of CMake ports system in a recent thread here on
the CMake mailing list. This would presumably be a system whereby
popular 3rd party dependencies which have not yet CMakeified their
source trees could be CM'd and baselined in one place and ultimately
downloaded for easy incorporation into CMake projects (especially with a
goal towards MSVC/MinGW portability). VTK seems to be doing this
internally for several of it's dependencies and the OSG project seems
interested in doing the same for similar reasons but would prefer not to
duplicate a bunch of work. Since many of the dependencies overlap, is
there general interest in this kind of a thing from the VTK perspective
or from others?
The goal would be to create an open-source project (hosted probably at a
neutral site like SF.net or Google Code) where the ports could be
stored, baselined, etc. and then released so that anyone could download
whichever are needed and incorporate them into their own projects?
Export/Install support could also be built into the projects so that
they could be prebuilt and installed by others and used that way as well.
A tertiary goal would be convincing the 3rd party dependencies to switch
to CMake for their native build systems.
Does this sound interesting?
I think it might be more interesting to start a campaign to push the
cmake files into those projects. Why shouldn't jpg,tiff,zlib, and
friends not ship with good cmake files. I guess if something like what
you suggest was created, it might push the developers of those projects
to accept the CMake files to avoid the partial fork in the project...
-Bill
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