PROPOSAL: Use Cmake as the build system for Samba

simo idra at samba.org
Wed Feb 17 15:42:40 MST 2010


On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:32 +1100, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> Hi Simo,
> 
> This article is interesting:
> 
>   http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/
> 
> It is very positive about cmake and its use in KDE.
> 
> waf also looks interesting. It's originally based on SCons, but may be
> better supported. See http://code.google.com/p/waf/
> 
> I certainly like the idea of being able to include waf (which is just
> 89k) in the Samba source, for use on systems that don't have it. It
> claims to support versions of python from 2.3 to 3.0, which is nice.
> 
> I also like the fact that it splits up the configure and build phases,
> which is a better fit for the way we do things now than cmake is.

We haven't looked at waf.

One of the main objectives we had was to concentrate on wildly used
tools with a proven community. waf never even came on the radar on that
front.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo at samba.org>
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo at redhat.com>



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