On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Switching to CMake is a one-time change and will save you from a lot of > changes to deal with backwards-incompatible autotools later. CMake tries > hard to maintain backwards compatibility, see: > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#section_Compatibility%20Commands > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#section_Policies > and also the older CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY mechanism, which is still > supported, see the policy CMP0001: > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#policy:CMP0001 > That's very different from the autotools' behavior of breaking things willy > nilly (yet does not preclude fixing historical warts). > > You have to think in the longer term. Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but promoting cmake on fedora-devel doesn't really accomplish anything unless the readers of this list are also upstream maintainers of some project. CMake may be a great system, but since fedora is downstream it has to work with what it gets. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
