bjoern michaelsen - Sun Microsystems - Hamburg Germany wrote:
> Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
>> Compared to dmake, CMake has the following advantages for OOo.
>>
>> - actively being developed
>> - used widely and thus known by lots of people
>> - native support for all major platforms and IDEs
>> - cross-platform autoconf replacement
>> - straightforward syntax, no shell magicks required (but you can use
>> them if you want to)
>>
>> Other nice features can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/Really_Cool_CMake_Features
> Actually, cmake has way to much features ;-)
> 
> The key requirements for a build system for OOo is that it has:
> - few dependencies
> - portable
> - small
> - limited to the set of features absolutely needed
>   (every additional feature is a lockin)
> 
> While dmake might be obscure, it fits these requirements pretty well,
> and more is lost than gained IMHO by moving to CMake.
> 
> CMake might have something going for it as a replacement for the mess
> that is autotools, however thats not an issue with OOo.
> 
> If you would offer a migration path from dmake to plain GNU make and
> from tcsh to bash, that might be quite interesting ...

Uhm, we've got no problem with bash anymore, everything should work fine
with either tcsh and bash. If not, it's a bug ...

Heiner

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