[Qucs-devel] Cmake vs autotools

[Richard C. <r.c...@ed...>]

Hi all,

We're currently maintaining two build systems, autotools and cmake. 
Autotools has served Qucs well, and I was nervous about changing to 
cmake (if it's not broke, don't fix it!). However, I can now see that 
cmake is proving itself, and also seems easier to maintain and 
understand. Therefore, I don't think it unreasonable to consider 
transitioning fully to cmake, rather than continue maintaining both systems.

It would be nice to understand what might block this, for instance, can 
cmake perform releases in the same way as we do now for all platforms? 
The release scripts still use autotools, and we won't be able to 
transition unless we can do cross-platform releases easily.

Regards,
Richard

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