From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qd3do-0007lk-2H for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:06:00 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-yx0-f175.google.com ([209.85.213.175]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Qd3dn-0001fA-5t for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:06:00 +0000 Received: by yxi19 with SMTP id 19so404371yxi.34 for ; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.155.133 with SMTP id j5mr5325526yhk.488.1309626353686; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:05:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.253.253.32] (cpe-70-124-63-160.austin.res.rr.com [70.124.63.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j65sm568970yhm.40.2011.07.02.10.05.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Doug Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Douglas Huff In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:05:51 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1DBB0EED-7A9C-46AC-ABE2-6214ABD3FE9A@jrbobdobbs.org> References: <201107021050.10563.luke@dashjr.org> To: John Smith X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1Qd3dn-0001fA-5t Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:06:00 -0000 Cmake is just as bad as autotools, just with a different syntax and more = "buzz" behind it right this second. I don't see any advantage to it over = autotools unless you're not familiar with either and even then I = wouldn't really call it an advantage. It's just different. It also requires a dependency that isn't installed by default anywhere, = as already mentioned, and is less known outside of some obscure qt/kde = circles and so finding people who are familiar with it and are willing = to maintain it is more difficult.=20 Autotools is the devil you know. You'll probably throw out that mysql and compiz have switched to it, but = really, those projects aren't something that should be emulated by = anyone. Ever. On Jul 2, 2011, at 11:50 AM, John Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Luke-Jr wrote: > On Saturday, July 02, 2011 3:29:04 AM John Smith wrote: > > Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead = of > > cmake? >=20 > I don't really care much either way, but cmake doesn't follow the = standard > build procedure (./configure && make && make install), though I = imagine > ./configure could be emulated with some script. >=20 > It would change the sequence to >=20 > cmake . && make && make install >=20 > So a shell script named 'configure' that starts 'cmake .' is the most = easy case :-) Probably it'd also need to pass through some command line = args, for example --prefix. >=20 > JS >=20 > = --------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously = valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, = security=20 > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and = makes=20 > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > = http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2_________________________________________= ______ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development --=20 Douglas Huff