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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:05:51 -0500
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To: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change?
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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 <luke@dashjr.org> 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
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