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Re: Is it worth switching to CMake?
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Mike Miller |
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Re: Is it worth switching to CMake? |
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Sat, 5 Jul 2014 08:33:46 -0400 |
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 09:21:35 +0530, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan wrote:
> Is it worth switching from autotools to cmake for building octave? If
> it is worth the effort and if the community is ready to take changes
> once it is done I can try to work on this.
I doubt it. Can you explain better than your "pros" list why this
would be a good thing? Personally I would consider it a downgrade of
our buildsystem.
> Pros:
> 1. Using cmake will make windows builds easier
> 2. Easy to manage and extend
Autotools is already easy to manage and extend and builds Octave on
many platforms including Windows. I don't see any benefits.
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mike