On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:49:16PM +0300, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > Hello [email protected], > > Just FYI: KDE4 switched to cmake. See here > http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/
Thanks, it's a well-known issue, for us who follow KDE. The KDE people have gone through several design choices before settling on cmake. I have had little time to actually look at recent KDE + cmake, it's in my plans to look at ways to port that reasonably soon. >From a personal point of view, this is a very welcome change. I expect cmake to be less bloated than the equivalent gnu stuff (e.g., autoconf, automake, gnu-make, libtool) and to actually have a consistent design that makes sense from a robustness point of view. (okay, that's an insult against automake, which is actually a fairly decent tool, except for the wacky notion that Makefiles that do stuff in a directory and in subdirectories at the same time is a cool idea). There might be some bumps, but if such a biggie as KDE can switch to cmake, then maybe one day we'll get rid of some of the most awful timewasters I've spent time with while working on OpenBSD ports.
