Sorry i tought you were talking about developpers. cmake generates the makefile so we can keep the makefile in the tarball and user would not need cmake. This would work the same as currently
to Greg : scons has its drawbacks , it completely replaces make and make the build by itself and it has a dependency on python. Cmake in counterpart generates a makefile (or whatever build system you want to you) for you. -- Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:52 PM, David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com> wrote: > Automake and autoconf are only required for Thrift developers. > Users who download the tarball only need a shell and make. > I would not like our users to have to download cmake. > > --David > > Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean wrote: > > It would replace automake,autoconf with cmake. > > > > The required dependency would become : > > > > - thrift > > - cmake > > - boost > > - bison > > - flex > > > > i did not search what libtool is used for maybe it would not be needed > > anymore. > > > > Boost is compatible with msvc (visual studio compiler) mingw/cygwin would > > not be required anymore. > > > > What is complicated for now is all the dependencies of automake / > autoconf , > > it requires perl and others. > > -- > > Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean > > > > > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:18 PM, David Reiss <dre...@facebook.com> > wrote: > > > >> What software requirements would this place on users who download > >> the source tarball? > >> > >> --David > >> > >> Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean wrote: > >>> Hi, i've got a suggestion (and is new here). > >>> > >>> Maybe it would be more practical to convert thrift to cmake or scons to > >>> compile git. This would ease compilation on windows (and in general ) > >>> andmaintenance of the project. > >>> > >>> if not, i am starting to look at jira's bugs and will submit patches > for > >>> some. I only have to attach the patch to the ticket ? > >>> -- > >>> Pierre-Alexandre St-Jean >
