[CMake] open source project for CMake ports?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Whatever happened to this?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Philip Lowman <philip at yhbt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luigi suggested a kind of CMake ports system in a recent thread here on the
> CMake mailing list.  This would presumably be a system whereby popular 3rd
> party dependencies which have not yet CMakeified their source trees could be
> CM'd and baselined in one place and ultimately downloaded for easy
> incorporation into CMake projects (especially with a goal towards MSVC/MinGW
> portability).  VTK seems to be doing this internally for several of it's
> dependencies and the OSG project seems interested in doing the same for
> similar reasons but would prefer not to duplicate a bunch of work.  Since
> many of the dependencies overlap, is there general interest in this kind of
> a thing from the VTK perspective or from others?
>
> The goal would be to create an open-source project (hosted probably at a
> neutral site like SF.net or Google Code) where the ports could be stored,
> baselined, etc. and then released so that anyone could download whichever
> are needed and incorporate them into their own projects?  Export/Install
> support could also be built into the projects so that they could be prebuilt
> and installed by others and used that way as well.
>
> A tertiary goal would be convincing the 3rd party dependencies to switch to
> CMake for their native build systems.
>
> Does this sound interesting?
>
> --
> Philip Lowman
>
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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