Hi Oleg,
What is the purpose of switching to cmake? Can the transition
be done without adding another dependency to building for
mingw-msys?
I guess my concern is that even if cmake is an improvement
over make that the impact can still be negative on the
community.
For me the interesting platforms for chicken are:
Linux (several generations in current use).
Android (admittedly this is in my dreams :))
Windows mingw-msys
When you are done can I expect that my builds for these
platforms will be as easy as they are today?
I missed the discussion of this on the chicken lists so my
appologies if this has been hashed to death but in my opinion
open source projects are very vunerable to pertubations and I
really want to see chicken thriving, not just surviving. A
change like this alienating even a single strong developer can
hurt. Hopefully the developers are already on board with your
vision in this.
> Hi!> try first, discuss
later. Consider this thread the
> initial request for comments.
Ah! Ok, fair enough.
> I maintain build system for projects at
> my workplace, we are
cross-compiling
> for embedded platform, desktop, there
> are plans for
mobile, and dealing with
> Chicken (with eggs and dependencies)
> as
projects grow becomes really painful.
> So this is partially internal,
and partially
> personal project. I'm trying to implement
> CMake based
scripts alongside
> current system. Ideally, it should be
> completely
optional.
Ok, I understand. This would certainly ease any transition.
> Current goals are: fix few annoyances
> in building cross Chicken with
eggs, a way
> to generate configurable self-contained
> executables,
native Windows build (with
> installer). All this might take a long
time.
If I read this correctly it sounds as if with CMake it would be possible to leverage the build system to not merely build chicken but also to install dependent eggs and even further to use it for the build for the final application. Is this what you envision?
If so, this is a new idea to me. I see installing chicken as a pre-developmment step. My application then has it's own makefile 100% independent of chicken.
If CMake resulted in an easier to use deploy mechanism I'd be thrilled. Deploy is a super cool feature but I seem to have a hard time getting it to work sometimes.