On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Peter Kasting <pkast...@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> I'm curious if the Chromium folks who created Gyp had any specific reason >> that they ruled out CMake as an option. (I have heard that it was considered >> and rejected.) >
I belive I can answer that. During my talk at google, I met with with Mark Mentovai and talked to him about Gyp and CMake. The main thing that he was trying to avoid was the requirement that CMake be installed for the build. That is true, CMake does have to be installed. However, CMake is installed on more an more systems. The cmake.org site has about 2K downloads per day, and most linux distros include CMake. With KDE using CMake, it has become pretty easy to get. Apple is also using CMake for the LLVM project, so it should be installed and accepted at Apple. I worked with Doug Gregor of the LLVM team to help him convince the Apple testing folks to allow for CMake to be installed. -Bill _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
