Re: [Boost-build] Future development

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-06 02:49:20

on Fri Oct 05 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> on Thu Oct 04 2007, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> How many platforms and make systems does KDE support? AFAIK it's only 
>>> gmake on Unix like systems. Is there a large multi-platform project 
>>> using Cmake?
>> 
>>>From Bill Hoffman:
>> 
>>   KDE supports Windows, Linux and Mac.  Xcode, visual studio, gmake,
>>   and nmake can all be used with KDE.  It is not a Linux only project,
>>   and that was one of the reasons they picked CMake was the good cross
>>   platform support.
>
> OK, thanks... I guess we should go read through the past KDE bug reports 
> to see how they handled build related problems from users.

Would you mind volunteering to run that investigation?  I've already
taken on the speculative Cmake-based Getting Started Guide and several
other explorations.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com