On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 06:09:57PM -0600, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
expect to see third-party flavors of CMake (the way you see various
vendor versions of e.g. sed, which have no relation to each other
besides the degree to which they implement the POSIX spec for such tool).
Why so? There could be a solaris cmake, an IRIX cmake, an HP-UX cmake...
Again, *what* "vendor cmake"? There is no such thing.
There could be. Why are there vendor sh, sed and awk?
Cost of porting CMake: on POSIX platforms, about the same as
autotools
or better, and unlike autotools, doable for non-UNIX-like platforms.
All the GNU POSIX utilities are portable and have been ported on many
platforms.
I don't know exactly where to check, but I guess that there were even VMS
versions of GNU sed, awk and so on, and also apollo versions and so on.
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Pat