<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">Funny, at time I am migrating the Listaller Project from an own</span></div><div style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">>Automake-like build system to CMake because of exactly the same problems.<br>>(And the fact that I now have to manage some Autopackage stuff to which is<br>>developed in Vala)<br>>CMake is a great system, the only thing I don't like is the way of<br>>defining configure options (--enable-qt looks much better than -DUSE_QT=ON<br>>:D)</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hehe, sure that's the only thing I don't like either BUT, as you can have</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">cmake-gui or the other text based configurator it starts to be much better.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>>If Richard decides to change the build system, I would help with the<br>>migration, but I am no Automake expert too.<br>>I was always able to realise everything I needed in CMake, but Automake is<br>>far the most powerful and configurable build system and I heard from some<br>>projects they do not use CMake because it does not offer all functionality<br>>the Autotools do. (I don't know if this is true, KDE uses CMake with<br>>success)</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">I'm no CMake expert but I really doubt that it's very powerful imo</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">this sentence must be true if the user don't actually know how to</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">translate Automake -> cmake.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br>>Anyway:  I found a workaround for the DEB-package patch problem, so it is<br>>less annoying now.<br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Nice, I have already started the port to CMake some time ago,</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">it almost builds packagekit-glib2, I'll try to work on that tomorrow since</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">pk-glib is the most complicated part because of the marchal generator.</div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Best.</div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div> </div><br>  </body></html>