Re: How about considering switch to cmake

Massimo Fidanza wrote:
> Dave Page ha scritto:
>> Massimo Fidanza wrote:
>>> Hi all, in the past I try to use auto hell and I found it very hard 
>>> to hack, now I'm developing a plugin for kate (KDE advanced editor) 
>>> and I discover the simplicity of cmake. CMake as auto hell is cross 
>>> platform and has a very simple and clean syntax, and the script are 
>>> not a mix of m4 + posix shell + something else but only cmake script. 
>>> The project that swith to cmake are very happy with it. I can help 
>>> with the portig of pgadmin. Let me know if you are interested.
>>
>> I did briefly look at cmake a while back. *If* we are to switch to a 
>> new build system, I'm looking for something that can generate 
>> Makefiles that will work with gmake and ideally Sun's make (for 
>> building with SunStudio) as well, as well as VC++ 2005 and Xcode 
>> project files. From what I recall, cmake fell down on the Xcode 
>> support. Has that changed now?
>>
>> Regards, Dave
> Hi Dave according to project news http://www.cmake.org/HTML/News.html 
> Xcode is supported from cmake 2.2

That's good - you're obviously more experienced with cmake than I, so 
where do we start on a proof of concept? Is that something you can knock 
up fairly easily?

Regards, Dave.