On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:34:43PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > As a linux guy I use KDE and I do not forget that for KDE4 scons was > dropped for cmake.
And the KDE people I currently work with expressed very clearly that cmake is what works best for KDE _and_ for any non-trivial project for that matter (small stuff should go with qmake). The reasoning was mainly the one that was to be expected: Scons development slow and unreliable, cmake quick and reliable, i.e. an argument that might carry some weight for us as long as our needs are not covered. > > I think the currently situation is acceptable as long as the build > > systems can be updated easily. Of course, if, for example, nobody > > else understands cmake and Peter decides not to support it, it will > > die naturally. > > That will not happen. :-) Natural deaths are indeed rare. Murder is more common... Andre'