Hi Partha, On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:22:35 -0400 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Mukund Sivaraman <muks@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Shlomi > > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 01:21:03PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> In any case, I would be willing to work on porting GIMP's build system to > >> CMake, as long as there is a general agreement from GIMP's developers that > >> CMake will be available in addition or instead of GNU Autotools (so I won't > >> work for naught). > > > > Automake has served GIMP well so far. We also have several people who > > know automake well enough to help other developers if they are unable > > to find their way. Do we need to change to CMake? Nobody has given > > reasons so far, just assumed that we'd like to switch to CMake. It > > would substitute one hell for another. > > > > Same applies for Qt. These suggestions keep coming up again and again. > > GIMP should be rewritten in C++, GIMP should use some other new thing, > > etc. Many times I look at how GIMP does something (in its tree) as an > > example of how to do something nearly perfectly. > > > > Mukund > > _______________________________________________ > > gimp-developer-list mailing list > > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > > I totally agree with Mukund. I sincerely hope that we continue with > using GNU make which works extremely well as far as I am concerned. > CMake can generate GNU make-compatible makefiles just fine, so unless you meant GNU Automake, that's not the issue. CMake can also generate project files for other IDEs and support some other build-systems, all from the same sources, so in this respect it is far superior to GNU Autohell. > Of course, if GIMP is re-written in qbasic that would be great. :) :) Maybe APL? We should rewrite GIMP in PDP-10 Assembly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10 . Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Apple Inc. is Evil - http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/anti/apple/ XSLT is what Chuck Norris has nightmares of. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
