Bo Peng wrote: >> It would be nice when I could add the files to svn. >
I shouldn't have asked (the risk of a flame war is too high) and I will never ask again. When there is any interest, I'll start a sourceforge project. > I am glad that lyx is following KDE to have several competing build > systems. Did you forget the <ironic> tag? > CMake won over there and I am not sure if this will be the > case for lyx. > I don't wanna something were somebody could win. > I did a scons build system and now it is in cvs (development/scons). > If you would like to add your cmake system in, I guess you will have > to prove a little bit harder to the developers why cmake is better > than autotools, and to what extend your system can replace autotools. > And I guess most importantly, whether or not you can maintain this > system. My biased view is that almost anyone can fix the scons > system, but very few will be able to do this for cmake without > learning the jargon of cmake. > > Bo Three build system is really wast of energy. And I also prefer the object oriented python over the macro language of cmake. The only reason why I've not used scons is that scons can't generate project files and cmake has support of Visual C++ and KDevelop. Peter
