[CMake] open source project for CMake ports?

[Philip Lowman]

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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