On Jul 26, 2008, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://www.cmake.org/HTML/index.html > That one should suffice. Nope. It offers the features, and even in a desirable fashion, but it doesn't preclude anyone from rewriting all the intelligence encoded in configure.ac and Makefile.am into a format that cmake can understand. And *that's* the huge task. Rewriting autoconf, automake and libtool, in spite of big a large undertaking, pales on the face of dropping GNU autotools code from all projects you might want to include in a GNU-less distro. > If it does not, we will look for another one, but there have to be > some out there :) Why? If Linux folks didn't bother rewriting a majority of their operating system, because it was already implemented and readily available in the GNU porject, why would they have bothered with rewriting a much smaller piece of it? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
