[CMake] autoconf: Does it meet these cross-platform goals?

[Asmodehn Shade]

Hi all,

Thats a good news the nullsoft installer feature in CPack,  really ;-)
I am looking forward to the next release ;-)

>No.  CMake is not a package management system.  I don't see any reasonable
way that it could do that cross-platform.  Consider how many package
management systems are available on Linux alone!

About that, just an idea : www.pkgsrc.org : source package , or binary
packages in a simple tgz... Maybe CPack could generate a binary package for
pkgsrc ? that would be less work than taking care of all the different
package management systems... and many platforms could be supported...
maybe not good to have such a strong dependency, but maybe worth asking the
mailing list about it sometime ;-)


2006/4/4, William A. Hoffman <billlist at nycap.rr.com>:
>
> At 06:12 PM 4/2/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
>
>
> >Do .msi-like installation packages do the work that of Debian's apt in
> that said system will automatically download missing library
> dependencies?  I highly doubt it.
> >No.  CMake is not a package management system.  I don't see any
> reasonable way that it could do that cross-platform.  Consider how many
> package management systems are available on Linux alone!
>
> Well, CMake does not, but there is a new tool that will be part of CMake
> called CPack.
> It will work much like CMake, in that it will have generators for various
> native packaging tools.
> It will be a beta release in CMake 2.4.   Currently, it can create
> nullsoft windows installers,
> tar.gz files, and self extracting tar.gz files.
>
> -Bill
>
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