[Vm-dev] tty's hypothesis on configH in CMakeVMMaker

Igor Stasenko siguctua at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 12:32:21 UTC 2014


On 18 June 2014 14:26, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 02:05:02PM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> >
> > the fun thing is that i looked at Ian's work, and drawn inspiration from
> it
> > which leaded to creating CMakeVMMaker. Presence of Ian's work is direct
> > reason why i chosen to use cmake for automating vm build system.. and
> > created CMakeVMMaker..
> > I just did one more logical step: generate cmake files on the fly from
> > smalltalk instead of manually editing files.
> >
>
> <snip>
>
> > At the time i started, there was no CMake configs adopted to work to
> build
> > Cog VM.
> >
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> I think that your work here is really important. I am seeing problems
> building
> Cog with the old build tools on a newer Ubuntu box, and I suspect that
> maintaining
> the old build system is going to become a big problem in the future.
>
>
You don't know what will happens in future :)

CMakeVMMaker is not perfect, as nothing is perfect in our imperfect world.
There's always a space for improvement. I just wanted to share my
philosophy and reasoning behind design decisions.



> Dave
>
>


-- 
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.
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