Just my 2 cents on this subject:
I don't think the CMake community is large enough to support a
second site, yet. I would rather see all those little snippets of
information, code, examples and tutorials on the CMake Wiki or in the
CMake documentation itself. I think if there is more than one CMake
site at this present time that those new to CMake will find it
tougher to track down the information that they need.
Also, what happens when you stop being a student with lots of time to
keep the site going?
Then repository of CMake modules _is_ a good idea though. That
_could_ be put in the wiki if we really wanted it there.
Again, just my 2 cents.
--
Mike Jackson
On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:34 PM, Matt Williams wrote:
Hi everyone.
I've got a proposal for you all which I've been thinking about for
a while.
Since cmake is now getting more and more widely spread, being used
by people
for both small, casual projects as well as monolithic projects
(e.g. KDE) it
seems like cmake itself, as well as the users of it could benefit
from a
community site of sorts. In my experience with opensource projects,
one of
the largest factors in how large a mindshare it has as well as how
long it
manages to hold on to that mind share is how strong a community it
has.
Now, this list is great; both for quick support as well as a direct
line to
the developers (kudos to Brad, Bill and co. for that) and the wiki
is good
for code snippets and extra documentation but I feel it could be
better.
I'm looking to see what you guys on this list think about me
starting up
a 'cmake community' site, possibly featuring the following:
- News about releases
- News about projects' success stories etc.
- Simple beginner's tutorials
- Tutorials about more specific tasks e.g. platform specific
things (even
when this isn't necessarily cmake specific)
- A repository of Find*.cmake files including the ability to
provide feedback
to the module writer, such as improvements/patches
- A repository of extra macros providing the same as the Find*.cmake
repository
- Discussion forums
So, what do you guys think? Is this sort of site wanted/needed? Is
this list
and wiki enough and should our efforts be focused on them? I'd like
to hear
your thoughts before anything is set in motion.
Finally, a little about myself: I've been using cmake ever since
KDE first
switched across to it (thankyou Alex) both for all my own projects
as well as
helping out a number of other projectsmore to a cmake system,
particularly
for its Linux and MacOS support. I'm a Physics University student
by day and
a KDE programmer by night.
Regards,
Matt Williams
http://milliams.com
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