Re: Heads up: CMake build system for libobjc

[Ivan Vučica]

13. 12. 2012., u 15:00, David Chisnall <address@hidden> je napisao:

> On 13 Dec 2012, at 13:54, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
>> It has the rather obvious problem that it doesn't run because there's no 
>> cmake on any of the systems I use.
>> I guess that would be an issue for the vast majority of our users.
> 
> Given that CMake is the standard build system for a number of large and 
> popular projects, including  LLVM and KDE, and is available for every 
> platform that we support (and a number that we don't), I don't think that 
> this is exactly a serious limitation.  I don't know of any system except 
> Windows and OS X that don't have it in their standard package repositories, 
> and these systems do have it as an easy-to-install download.  

If my vote counts (and it doesn't have to, and this isn't a democracy, et 
cetera, et cetera), I'd say "Makefiles are still the most portable thing 
around". At least a basic Makefile that doesn't require cmake would be awesome. 

Having to installing more and more and even more packages as requirements when 
bootstrapping GNUstep is slightly painful.
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Ivan Vučica
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