Build system (was Re: Future of KDE Development)

[Charles Samuels]

On Monday 14 February 2005 6:46, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> -since it's written in C++ it needs to be compiled
> -not very wide spread yet
> -not very unixish feel, i.e. slighty strange naming conventions: the files
> you have to write (instead of makefile.am) are named "CMakeLists.txt" and
> all commands in cmake are upper case
> -probably not as powerful as a full programming language (python)
>
> Last but not least, here comes the most simple CMakeLists.txt:
>
> #create an executable "helloworld" from the file main.cpp
> ADD_EXECUTABLE(helloworld main.cpp)

Well, aside from the IMO lousy syntax, we could always fork it.

-Charles