[vtkusers] Re: Improving VTK packages: some suggestions. [long]

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 24/11/2000 18:05, Peter.Vanroose at esat.kuleuven.ac.be wrote:
> > FYI, at Kitware we (Bill Hoffman) have developed  a tool called CMake
> > (cross-platform make) that will eventually replace the current vtk build
> > process.
>
>Just want to mention that we have been facing similar problems with the
>TargetJr + IUE software package (which is even much larger than VTK ;-)

what do you mean :) in terms of files/LOC.

>We have gone over several approaches, starting from Imakefiles, then
>autoconf + simplified makefiles + gnu make, and we are now also
>experimenting with CMake, especially to support VC++ project files.

Is Cmake scriptable ? I definitely think that a build tool should be 
scriptable (Perl, Python, Tcl, or something else), so that it might be 
extended easily.