[CMake-Promote] Generic installation instructions
Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva
miguelf at msu.edu
Wed Jan 11 04:06:52 EST 2006
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
>> For the Windows camp, this type of file is non-traditional (not
>> something people go looking for) probably the more normal thing would
>> be a *.hlp file linked to the start menu...
>
>
> CMake is for developers building from source trees. If it's just a
> plain jane source tree, it usually doesn't have an installer, nor does
> it generate links to anything in the desktop Start menu. Perhaps you
> are thinking of distributions or packages that have an installer, a
> binary app, and optional source code supplied.
>
yes, projects with optional source code and libraries or frameworks with
examples that need to be built. But the point really was that, in my
perception, windows users don't have much of a convention when regarding
these types of files, because either they install a binary package or
they double click the project workspace/solution to bring up the IDE...
>>
>> So, all things considered INSTALL-CMAKE.txt makes sense to me.
>
>
> I agree it makes sense, but I think INSTALL-CMake.txt looks better.
Well, I had written this before your last email, i think
INSTALL-CMake.txt also makes sense. Actually INSTALL*.txt works for me,
but then again I don't have a preference anyway... In the end, a user
smart enough to compile from source will probably be smart enough to
find the instructions ;)
--Miguel
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