On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:36 PM, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Bjarke Hammersholt Roune > <bjarke.ro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can a standard spkg in Sage use CMake? >> >> http://www.cmake.org/ >> >> I ask because I'm seriously considering moving from a straight make >> system for Frobby to CMake, but if that is not possible for Sage then >> it's a non-starter. A search of sage-devel reveals that Singular is >> moving to CMake, but it isn't clear to me from the discussion how well >> Sage is able to deal with CMake at this time. >> > > No, at present, it is definitely not OK for a standard spkg to use CMake. > Frobby is an optional spkg, not standard, so I guess it would be OK, > though if you use CMake, note that the vast majority of people that > try to build Frobby will find that it immediately fails fro them, > until they install cmake, which they may not easily be able to do. > > If Singular moves to CMake that could seriously be a pain for us, > since we'll likely have to add cmake as a standard package to Sage, > which will of course involves headaches. CMake is not nearly as > widely deployed as many of the components of Sage that we do build > from source, so assuming it is installed already is not so reasonable. > > So quick summary: Right now Sage does not include cmake, so no > standard package can depend on cmake. If we are forced into including > cmake because of a design decision by Singular that we can't get > around, then we'll have to get cmake into sage as a standard package. > At that point, any standard package could use cmake. > > By the way, the cmake source tarball is about 3.4MB and takes 4 > minutes to compile on sage.math. So size and time wise it is not > unreasonable that it could be a standard Sage package at some point.
For what is worth, we use cmake in FEMhub (femhub.org) as a standard package and we never had any problems with that. I like cmake and I use it for all my projects, that involve some C++ coding. Ondrej -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
