On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:41:55 +0200 >>>>>> "Jens" == Jens Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
Jens> I also think CMake isn't that shiny. But you can get the job done Jens> once you're familiar with it. And it has been adopted by some big Jens> projects: Blender 3D, Boost, clang, KDE, LLVM, MiKTeX, MySQL (see Jens> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake#Applications_using_CMake). Jens> That should be put into consideration. Here is the waf list: http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/ProjectsUsingWaf Jens> I never used this but CMake has generators for Visual Studio and Jens> through the Makefile Generators you can integrate it in Jens> CodeBlocks and Eclipse. Don't know how important this is. I live Jens> happily with the generated Makefiles. in waf's TODO I found some similar items, although not labelled as high-priority: + IDE file generator (msvc, codeblocks) + CMake file interpreter Jens> Coming back to the original question. I can recommend CMake Jens> especially if one plans to do C and C++ programming. For D we Jens> (Steve, Dean and I) are trying to improve the support. Fixing Mac Jens> OSX is next on my list. My primary interest is D and developing on Linux, although we want our app to run on Mac & Windows as well (hopefully using QtD). Jens> I have to admit I neither know Scons nor Waf. Maybe these are Jens> superior. They're Python-based, right? I'll guess that makes them Jens> favorable for Python programmers. Waf really looks good and, afaics, it's more extensible than Scons. Here is the table with some comparisons: http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/WafAndOtherBuildSystems Jens> On top of my head some things I find nice in CMake. Just curious Jens> whether Scons/Waf have similar features. I'm not at all familiar with waf, just read a bit about it and here is the feature list: http://code.google.com/p/waf/ and here is the 'book': http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/wafbook160p3/ Jens> * Find Google Test/other libraries (if supported) in one line: Jens> find_package(GTest REQUIRED) I see something like: ctx.find_program('touch', var='TOUCH') Jens> * Tight integration for testing and packaging (ctest, cpack) Only dist for tarballs, afaict. Jens> * Publishing build/test results No idea. Jens> * No dependencies besides a C++ compiler for installation. This is one advantage of waf that it only requires ~80K python script which is, usually, distributed with the sources. Jens> * Continuous Integration watching subversion repository The above page says: "provides automatic rebuilds for continuous integration" Jens> * Valgrind/Purify integration Considering Samba uses Waf, Google returned: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Debugging_individual_tests Moreover, since the system uses full-featured programming language, probably there are no restriction what can be done... In any case, it's interesting and we'll put it on our evaluation-list. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: CDBF17CA ----------------------------------------------------------------
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