Re: [boost] Boost building with CMake

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-11 16:58:58

Gennadiy Rozental wrote:

> IMO We should deal with this as we do with any other submission. Someone 
> needs to bring it up and we should review it and make a decision.

This is not like any other library because it impacts _all_ libraries 
and _all_ testers etc.

And although the discussion on Cmake on this list is generally 
interesting, we should avoid making the same mistake as a few years ago. 
Last time when we were looking for a build-system (and finally decided 
on Jam), (I believe David Abrahams) had suggested a python-based 
build-system. This was unacceptable to many because it would mean boost 
had a dependency on python. Nevertheless of all those who objected, 
little had to work on/with the build system later on while the 
python-approach-supporters later on were stuck with much more work 
because of the criticism on the-python-approach.

If we discuss features that we think are lacking in Cmake, we should 
also look at which build-system _does_ offer those features, which 
build-system would be a serious alternative.

toon