[CMake] open source project for CMake ports?

[Patrick Spendrin]

Philip Lowman schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Luigi suggested a kind of CMake ports system in a recent thread here on 
> the CMake mailing list.  This would presumably be a system whereby 
> popular 3rd party dependencies which have not yet CMakeified their 
> source trees could be CM'd and baselined in one place and ultimately 
> downloaded for easy incorporation into CMake projects (especially with a 
> goal towards MSVC/MinGW portability).  VTK seems to be doing this 
> internally for several of it's dependencies and the OSG project seems 
> interested in doing the same for similar reasons but would prefer not to 
> duplicate a bunch of work.  Since many of the dependencies overlap, is 
> there general interest in this kind of a thing from the VTK perspective 
> or from others?
> 
> The goal would be to create an open-source project (hosted probably at a 
> neutral site like SF.net or Google Code) where the ports could be 
> stored, baselined, etc. and then released so that anyone could download 
> whichever are needed and incorporate them into their own projects?  
> Export/Install support could also be built into the projects so that 
> they could be prebuilt and installed by others and used that way as well.
> 
> A tertiary goal would be convincing the 3rd party dependencies to switch 
> to CMake for their native build systems.
> 
> Does this sound interesting?
Yes.
As I am maintaining patches for some libraries and working for some 
others, it would be nice to have such a unified system to keep doubled 
work amount low.
This has some more points:
We would not have to maintain our patches in our own sources anymore, 
they can easily be used & taken by everybody else too, without searching 
to much.
As it would be of great use for us, I would rather want to start it 
today than tomorrow.
I can try to order the patches we do maintain so they can be integrated 
later on.
> 
> -- 
> Philip Lowman
regards,
Patrick

p.s.: you made my day ;-)
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