[Libjpeg-turbo-devel] CMake

[DRC <dco...@us...>]

Greetings, libjpeg-turbo users and developers.  I'm posting this in
order to float a trial balloon regarding the future possibility of
migrating our build system to 100% CMake and dropping support for
autotools altogether.  I generally prefer CMake, and it would be nice to
have only one build system for all platforms (would ease the maintenance
burden slightly.)  However, libjpeg-turbo is also somewhat deeply
entrenched at this point, and given that it has become a core system
library on a bunch of O/S's, I will not make this move if there are
strong objections from downstream packagers and distributors (I will
also need to secure funding for the project, but that's Step 2.  Step 1
is making sure there are no major technical or political hurdles.)

If you are a downstream packager/maintainer/distributor or pretty much
anyone else who regularly builds libjpeg-turbo from source, then I need
your feedback-- either here or on GitHub:
https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/56.  Particularly
if you can foresee any issues with this, I need to hear from you.

If this lands, it won't be until libjpeg-turbo 1.6, which won't go into
beta until this fall at the earliest.

DRC