On Thursday 17 February 2011 06:15:34 Nicolas Desprès wrote: > HI everybody, > > I'm sure some of you are already aware of the Gyp project (at least > Bill since he responded on this thread): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg11029.html > > I think there are many good ideas/improvements/inspiration that should > be taken into account to drive future development of CMake. > > In particular, I am thinking about point 2, 5 and maybe 3 of the first > part of the post. > > In general, I am wondering why the Gyp's staff decided to start Gyp > instead of improving CMake by submitting patches whereas they "had > even started a speculative port" (as mentioned at the beginning of the > post). Since the time I know CMake, this community have always > welcomed improvements and patches in order to support large projects > such as KDE and Boost, so why not for Chrome/Webkit. > > That being said, I feel sad to see other CMake's like projects started > instead of contributing. > > Regards,
I'm with you. I don't know why there are companies or people who starts other open source projects instead of improving some other that do the same thing. It's exaclty like Nokia that prefer to create QtCreator instead of improving KDevelop, which is a gread developer tool. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
