From: Pedro Lopez-C. <ped...@gm...> - 2006-11-06 18:36:26
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On Monday, 6 November 2006 11:22, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Sunday 05 Nov 2006 22:24, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > > You need at least CMake 2.4 for KDE support. > > Hm, that's a bit of a worry. I wonder whether you can easily get that > across distributions at the moment? What's the situation like for e.g. > Fedora users? I've done a quick survey using this search engine: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=cmake There are official packages (in Extras) for Fedora Core 4, 5, 6 and the currently development Core 7. Also for OpenSuSE and Mandriva development repositories. I would expect to be included in all the major distributions very soon, as it is already being used now to develop KDE4 by many people, including the employees of the bigger Linux companies. > I think we need to approach this with some care. We seem to have become > very keen to switch from scons just on the basis that KDE is doing so -- > it's not quite clear to me what exactly is wrong with it for us. I'm not > fond of scons myself, but that's really down to my aversion to Python; I > can't say I regularly notice actual problems with it. What are they? Are > they problems in scons, or in our scripts? The main problem with bksys/scons is that bksys is not maintained anymore. But if anybody likes it and wants to take the responsibility, I have nothing against. I've only added a few text files to the repository, without erasing anything at all. If we don't like CMake after all, we can get rid of it very easily. Regards, Pedro |