Re: [Freeglut-developer] Fwd: [FreeGLUT] Is there a good reason for VERSION_MAJOR etc to migrate to cmake? (#15)

[Nigel S. <nig...@gm...>]

I think the difference is that config.h is platform-specific, whereas
fg_version.h is not and bypasses cmake in other build environments.

- Nigel


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Vinnie Simonetti <rcm...@ho...>
wrote:

> I replied on Github <https://github.com/dcnieho/FreeGLUT/issues/15>.
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> "Why generate a fg_version.h when it can just be written to config.h which
> cmake (and others) already generate?”
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> Vinnie
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> *From:* Diederick C. Niehorster [mailto:dc...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:25 PM
> *To:* FreeGLUT developers list; Nigel Stewart
> *Subject:* [Freeglut-developer] Fwd: [FreeGLUT] Is there a good reason
> for VERSION_MAJOR etc to migrate to cmake? (#15)
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> Hi Guys,
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> Please see the below. What do others feel?
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> All the best,
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> Dee
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Nigel Stewart* <not...@gi...>
> Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [FreeGLUT] Is there a good reason for VERSION_MAJOR etc to
> migrate to cmake? (#15)
> To: dcnieho/FreeGLUT <Fre...@no...>
> Cc: "Diederick C. Niehorster" <dc...@gm...>
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> What I mean by "established build toolchain" is that I can think of at
> least three source trees building and using freeglut that are not using
> cmake and are not likely to be migrated. So needing to manage the version
> numbering in each one of those seems like a pain. I was wondering if you'd
> consider a patch that would generate a fg_version.h from cmake, which would
> be checked-in and #included from fg_internal.h ?
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> <https://github.com/dcnieho/FreeGLUT/issues/15#issuecomment-50097452>.
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