[CMake] Building CMake on Windows

[Bill Hoffman]

steve naroff wrote:
> The 'Readme.txt' for the Windows source distribution says:
> 
> "You need to download and install a binary release of CMake in order to 
> build CMake."
> 
> Unlike UNIX/Mac, the Windows source can't be bootstrapped...
> 
> I assume the Readme.txt is accurate? Any plans to change this?
> 
No plans to change this.  I just can not see a use case where it would 
make it worth while to maintain a bootstrap build file for CMake.  You 
can always bootstrap CMake from a previous version, and we even create 
nightly binaries.  If I was to do some sort of bootstrap, I would just 
include some version of the cmake binary with the CMake source.  In the 
far distant past we had an nmake file, but that was 8 or so years ago... 
I don't see it coming back again... :)

-Bill