cmake hype?

[Laurent Montel]

On Friday 03 February 2006 13:03, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Gregory Hayes wrote:
> >I can agree with that sentiment ;) Three different build systems is just
> >asking for trouble down the line. Regardless of which build system is
> >chosen, there needs to be a single "standard" methodology for building.
> > Once this is resolved, we need to align our quality team documentation
> > so we are all working off the same page.
>
> We will have only one official buildsystem for KDE4.
>
> In Málaga, we had decided for Scons. But cmake is progressing fast too. If
> cmake delivers and Scons doesn't, we'll use that.

Ok but I think that we must define a dead line otherwise into 6 months we will 
continue to have 3 build system.

> We haven't yet, but we'll eventually reach a point when we'll have to
> switch the official from unsermake Makefile.am to something else (or
> not). THAT's what application developers will have to maintain. Until
> then, they maintain Makefile.am files.
>
> From that point forwards, any other buildsystems will be maintained out of
> trunk, by whoever wants to work on them.

Move out cmake build into a branch and merge all the time changes ?


PS: I move this discusion into kde-buildsystem ML.