[CMake] Creating project distribution using cpack.

[Bill Hoffman]

Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2007/5/8, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:
>
>
> Personnally I don't want to pay for something I don't need or simply 
> wan't.
>
> CMake is a perfect tool on its own
> As far as I know CPack and CTest depends on CMake but why
> should CMake depends on CPack or CTest?
>
> Please take my opinion as a wish EVEN IF I AM USING CMake+CPack
> (CTest is coming soon).
>
> But the day I found something "better" or "more suited to my needs"
> which may replace CPack/CTest and I will certainly be angry if I should
> keep CPack/CTest installed if I don't need it.
>
> I know that CMake/CTest/CPack are provided together but I don't
> think it would be a good design choice to enforce dependency unless
> it is really needed.
It is more a matter of convenience, and versions.  It is painful enough 
to maintain binaries for all the platforms we do, but to have to do it 
for three separate tools would be worst.  Maybe at some point in the 
future it might be an install option, but we are talking about a pretty 
small delta to the install size for CMake.

-Bill