[CMake] Happy Birthday CMake!

[Andrew Maclean]

Hi Bill,
   In the pre-Cmake days I remember building VTK on Windows with a program
that configured VTK for the build. Do you remember what it was called? This
was back around 2000!

Regards
   Andrew



> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
> To: "Alan W. Irwin" <Alan.W.Irwin1234 at gmail.com>
> Cc: CMake Mailinglist <cmake at cmake.org>, cmake-developers at cmake.org
> Bcc:
> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:36:56 -0400
> Subject: Re: [CMake] Happy Birthday CMake!
>
> On 9/2/2018 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
>
> And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the first
> place!
>
> Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of CMake
> that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this software
> since its inception?  For example, I am pretty sure you have stated before
> that it
> did not start out as a C++ project.  If so, when did it switch to C++?
> I did look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>, but the history
> paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes made along
> the way in the development of CMake.
>
> CMake has always been in C++.   The idea was that all that would be
> required would be a C++ compiler.  With that, you could build CMake.  Since
> CMake was designed to build C++ projects, it was assumed that the user
> would at least have a C++ compiler.
>
> Should be some history these talks:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjtN8NGtl4
>
> I don't think there is anything written.
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
> --
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Andrew J. P. Maclean

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