PROPOSAL: Use Cmake as the build system for Samba

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:02 -0500, simo wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:50 +1100, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> > Hi Simo,
> > 
> >  > As you say it is nothing that we haven't done or keep doing, but
> >  > certainly if I should judge on this criteria I'd definitely choose CMake
> >  > over python any day.
> > 
> > It is not cmake or python. It is cmake _and_ python. By using cmake we
> > don't lose the need for python in samba4. 
> > 
> > Having a dependence on one external tool doesn't justify adding
> > another. The point of using a python based build tool is that it adds
> > no additional pain.
> 
> For samba3 it is a choice between cmake or python afaik.
The python we rely on in Samba (2.4) was released in 2004. All it
requires to build is a C compiler and libc. SCons and waf both support
Python 2.4 and higher.

CMake requires C++ and the CMake that Andreas' current work is based on
was released in 2008. 

Why is Python more pain ?

Cheers,

Jelmer
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