CPack Packaging for Windows/Mac (and possibly Linux)

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Sune Vuorela <debian at pusling.com>:

> On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:25:03 Mike Arthur wrote:
>
>> In my experience using CPack however I'm pretty sure we could get the
>> package generators in such a state that they could be used downstream.
>
> My impression (without much look at it) is that the deb support might be
> producing technically valid debian packages, but not of a quality
> suitable for debian.
>
> .. and some guy within the last months came by debian developer maillist
> talking about how he implemented the .deb support - and a few mails
> later he said that he never read the debian packaging policies, but just
> reverse engineered .deb packages.
>
> That has at least convinced me to not spend any further time looking at
> the .deb support in cmake in the near future.

The main problem I see with .deb packages produced by CPack is they  
are not usable by autobuilders: CPack only produces binary packages,  
not source packages (.orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz + .dsc).

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)