[SM-Discuss] Why cmake?
Vlad Glagolev
stealth at sourcemage.org
Thu Dec 18 16:50:48 EST 2008
Now when a few people overloaded my head with a question "WTF?!", I (like the others) wanna ask
you: why cmake? Why do you add any extra software isn't really needed to build other software?!
Another question disturbin me: why do you force devel/rc/testing versions of the spells as they
are stable? That's not good, and that's not GNOME (Robin already argued about it).
Neither me nor (i hope) the others wanna see their box like 00b00nt00 or something else with a
ton of useless binaries/libraries. Nowadays, Source Mage is the only distro where I can keep
my system as compact as possible and pretty stable. So don't break my dream. Imho, we should
keep it as minimalistic as possible. That's why we use this system.
Before I've joined there were a lot of extra dependencies in hundreds of spells. I fixed them
added needed flags, removed really useless dependencies, and with those changes my system (at
that time) went down from ~470 spells to ~420. Now I have full-featured desktop system at home
(540 spells) and at work (430 spells), and I don't have cmake.
Pango is the one of basic spells, and I don't really need cmake to build it, really.
Thanks for understanding.
--
Dont wait to die to find paradise...
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Cheerz,
Vlad "Stealth" Glagolev
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