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Re: Call for libcurl cmake users/maintainers!

From: Sergei Nikulov <sergey.nikulov_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 23:09:36 +0400

2014-07-24 18:13 GMT+04:00 Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Sergei Nikulov wrote:
>
> Merged. Been this broken since January!
>>>
>>
>> It happens. But I'm not always using latest SW...
>>
>
> I'm not blaming you! But I think it is valuable input that hardly anyone
> has built curl/libcurl with cmake since January (I'm not sure which
> platforms that would survive this bug and we can't rule out that some might
> have simply worked around it locally without telling us).

You can, if you wish :)

>
>
> To avoid such things we can add cmake under travis-ci check as well... Or
>> put curl under CDash (http://my.cdash.org/)
>>
>
> I'd like to bring back the discussion with a clear motivation why we need
> cmake support at all.
>
> For Windows we already have numerous ways (too many actually already) to
> build, and for *nix the configure/autotool setup is much more complete and
> tested.
>
> What I can see from this 5-year test period, is that the cmake support
> misleads some amount of users into using an inferior and badly maintained
> build system that causes them weird and funny bugs. Without any particular
> upside.
>
>
Daniel,

Could you please be more specific?
I'll review cmake related issues and provide fixes if possible.

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Best Regards,
Sergei Nikulov

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Received on 2014-07-25