2008/6/30 Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:07 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
>>
> [..]
>
>  Plus, CMake is getting more mature and stable and it already supports
>>> VisualStudio and XCode project files conversion, lack of proper
>>> extensibility being its only downside at the moment.
>>>
>>
>> Lack of extensibility, and use of another arcane custom made programming
>> language (if we can call it that) for everything.
>>
>> No, CMake is not an answer.  It is not significantly better than
>> autotools to justify a switch to it IMHO.
>>
>
> CMake *is* considerably better. Xcode/VisualStudio are killer features
> which alone would make a switch worth it.
>
> Can we please start to organize ourselves and try to move forward with
> switching to another build system?
>

Johan, you and your JFDI attitued are my heroes :-)


>
> Proposal:
> - Decide features we need to do a migrate
> - Create a table of proposed build systems x features
> - Check the KDE build system migration and see what we can learn[1]
> - An obvious option will eventually appear
> - Start migrate some modules
>

I created a new wiki page with some initial content as a common place to
gather all the information we have and start a roadmap for this action.

http://live.gnome.org/BuildSystem


>
> [1]: Tim has some notes on this:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2008/06/02/02062008-linuxtag-2008/
>
> Johan
>



-- 
Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz
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