[CMake-Promote] Generic installation instructions

Brandon J. Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Tue Jan 10 14:55:16 EST 2006


Alexander Neundorf wrote:

>>--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- 
>>Von: "Brandon J. Van Every" <bvanevery at gmail.com> 
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>>choice  
>>is in order.  For instance, CMakeHOWTO.txt, CMakeInstructions.txt, or  
>>CMakeHelp.txt.  Maybe alphebatization isn't the highest good, if the  
>>price is name collisions with other "install" stuff.  Hm, still,  
>>INSTALL* would be much better for getting people to dump their Autoconf  
>>INSTALL file.  Grr.  What about InstallWithCMake.txt?  Looks nice, but  
>>is it too long for command line hackers? 
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>Command line hackers usually have a shell with filename completion I'd 
>say. 
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That's what I was thinking.  Well, Bill voted for INSTALL-CMake.txt.  
Suits me fine too.  I think if we create something standard, and just 
keep promoting it as standard, it will adhere and projects will find 
ways to de-conflict themselves.  So, any objections?


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
I won't spend more than 1 day configuring 1 thing.



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