On Sunday 04 February 2007 23:48:38 Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art wrote:
For all the use I get out of inkscape, I'd like to pitch in with this. I figure it would be a good way to get my feet wet, and I've been hawking this list long enough.
The most coding I've done is some really basic php scripting, but I'm somewhat familiar with the basics, so if someone would tell me what to do, I'd be happy to pitch in. I've really no clue where to start.
I'm going to chime in here. The main reason I picked Cmake was the Build syntax looked considerable less painfully then most of the other systems out especially when compared to the Auto* build system. Secondly it is cross-platform on all the major platforms that we wanted to support *nix, Windows, MACOSX, and many others as well. And the thrid reason was I wanted to see if i could do it with a small project looking to hopefully build enough knowledge to attempt something like Inkscape.
I think a Handful of dedicated People could have all of the build system converted in a week or two at most. With only one or two working part time on it the outside of a month. And that is people with no knowledge of how Cmake build system works. If we could borrow some experts from the Scribus team or some other Cmake knowledgeable group it would go much faster.
It took me a week to do the inital CMake conversion for Scribus, and its had quite a few tweaks along the way, as well as even backporting it to the 1.3.3.x stable series for wider testing. A lot of the initial issues I faced related to Qt and moc files, which is obviously not an issue for you.
With 1.3.5, we will be dumping autotools and building solely with CMake on *nix and OSX.
Regards Craig