void pointer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was curious to know if CMake has ever been discussed. Using CMake to build
> Subversion and its dependencies would most certainly make development on
> Windows a lot easier. The only difficulty at that point would be to gather
> the dependencies themselves. CMake has a lot of issues that I've
> specifically run into, so I'm not sure if it is suitable for the task of
> building Subversion, since I do not really know the requirements.
>
> I would like to hear what the developers think about this. I've definitely
> given a lot of thought to contributing CMake scripts to the Subversion
> project if there is a demand for it.
While we're on the topic of alternative build systems, I recall somebody (Dave
Anderson, maybe?) starting work on a scons-based system. I don't recall that he
got very far, though. Ah, here's the branch:
http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/branches/scons-build-system/
-Hyrum
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