On Monday 16 February 2009, 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.
I think also the KDE-on-Windows developer cmakeified a few projects. > 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 You suggest to keep a whole copy of these projects there, not only the build files, right ? A problem is how to keep this current, i.e. they will more or less quickly become out-of-date (happened to me with python). Alex _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
