Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QdKA6-0000aJ-M3 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:44:26 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from rhcavuit01.kulnet.kuleuven.be ([134.58.240.129] helo=cavuit01.kulnet.kuleuven.be) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1QdKA5-00084B-Ae for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:44:26 +0000 X-KULeuven-Envelope-From: sipa@ulyssis.org X-Spam-Status: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-48.798, required 5, autolearn=disabled, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED 0.00, FREEMAIL_FROM 0.00, KUL_SMTPS -50.00, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED 1.20) X-KULeuven-Scanned: Found to be clean X-KULeuven-ID: D5F2D13818D.A9B8C X-KULeuven-Information: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Received: from smtps01.kuleuven.be (smtpshost01.kulnet.kuleuven.be [134.58.240.74]) by cavuit01.kulnet.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F2D13818D; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ulyssis.org (mail.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.be [193.190.253.235]) by smtps01.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6927231E702; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from wop.ulyssis.org (wop.intern.ulyssis.org [192.168.0.182]) by smtp.ulyssis.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F20C10067; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:45:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wop.ulyssis.org (Postfix, from userid 615) id 6562287C1AB; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0200 X-Kuleuven: This mail passed the K.U.Leuven mailcluster From: Pieter Wuille To: John Smith Message-ID: <20110703104415.GA2034@ulyssis.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://sipa.ulyssis.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: 1.2 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (pieter.wuille[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED 1.2 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list X-Headers-End: 1QdKA5-00084B-Ae Cc: Bitcoin Dev 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: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:44:26 -0000 On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 07:29:04AM +0000, John Smith wrote: > Hello, > > Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead of > cmake? I have no preference for any particular project build system. If a system * is easy enough to set up (included in standard repositories, eg.) * allows building of the bitcoin codebase on several linux distro's * does cross-compilation to windows * supports osx * is easy to maintain * it is not too hard to adapt other GUI's to use it (bitcoin-qt, maybe others as well, i hear about a cocoabitcoin?) * gets implemented and tested to support all of the above .. i have no problem with choosing that system for future versions. -- Pieter