[CMake-Promote] Dart difficult to sell
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Wed Jun 6 12:38:30 EDT 2007
Brandon Van Every wrote:
> I'm trying to land a job as a build engineer at a game company. They
> use Perforce, as do many in the game industry. I'm trying to sell the
> virtues of CMake and of course nightly build and test systems come up.
> So, I go searching for info on whether Dart works with Perforce,
> and...
Perforce is not yet supported cvs, and svn are the only ones right now.
You might be able to use execute_process to run the perforce command
in a ctest script.
>
> ...there's almost no mention in the Dart mailing list archives about
> it. Last entry was from 2005, something about Dart2 being able to
> configure the source repository via XML.
>
> ...the Dart webpage has several entries *seriously* out of date.
> Like, "we might be doing something in 2001, stay tuned" kind of stuff.
> This is BAD. I don't think I want to wave this under a hiring
> manager's nose, I think he'll flee in terror.
>
Actually, that is the Dart1 page, that although used quite a bit,
is being replaced by Dart2:
http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Dart2Summary
Dart2 has better documentation that can be found on that wiki.
-Bill
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