[Bf-committers] Re: handcrafted makefiles, autotools, scons and cmake ?

[GSR]

Hi,
joeedh at gmail.com (2006-07-09 at 1622.02 -0700):
> Hans Lambermont wrote:
> > This might be interesting to Blender too : "CMake" http://www.cmake.org/ .
> >
> > A nice read about CMake : "Why the KDE project switched to CMake"
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/ (which also has an interesting blurp on
> > KDE's CVS to Subversion switch).
> >
> > In brief : KDE used autotools, evaluated SCons and finally choose CMake.
> > CMake supports basically every UNIX, MS Windows (MSVC, Borland, cygwin,
> > mingw) and Mac OS X. CMake can generate Makefiles ... and XCode (Mac OS
> > X IDE) and several versions of MS Visual Studio (Windows IDE, >=7).
> >
> IMHO I think this would be a bad idea.  At the moment, coders are 
> expected to maintain the makefiles and SConscripts, not to mention 
> keeping the VC 7/8 project files up-to-date if they can.
> 
> We don't need more then four build systems, surely.

The point is they would only maintain one (1) and only one, which is
more than zero and less than two, and shalt thou count to one, no
more, no less (this holy grenade has a faster fuse)... and that system
should work in a varied range of compiler/OS/etc setups.

GSR