Steve, let me guess: the group you care about, who can't/won't install binaries or allow binaries in the source tree, is using Visual Studio on Windows... right? :-)
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Bill Hoffman <[email protected]>wrote: > steve naroff wrote: > >> The 'Readme.txt' for the Windows source distribution says: >> >> "You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to >> build CMake." >> >> Unlike UNIX/Mac, the Windows source can't be bootstrapped... >> >> I assume the Readme.txt is accurate? Any plans to change this? >> >> No plans to change this. I just can not see a use case where it would > make it worth while to maintain a bootstrap build file for CMake. You can > always bootstrap CMake from a previous version, and we even create nightly > binaries. If I was to do some sort of bootstrap, I would just include some > version of the cmake binary with the CMake source. In the far distant past > we had an nmake file, but that was 8 or so years ago... I don't see it > coming back again... :) > > -Bill > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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