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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 09:13 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> Will CMake eventually supersede SCons? If so what are the reason behind such a 
> decision?
> 

Maybe. CMake is there now for anyone to try (it's not yet complete).
SCons and CMake can co-exist so we can experiment before making any
decision.

We rely on a home-baked SCons (simula-scons), whereas CMake is
maintained by others. simula-scons is hard for the uninitiated
(including me) to work with. CMake seems easier (twe'll see if that's
true after playing around with it). There are quite a few test files
already available of the shelf for dependencies, and it also has a nice
GUI which I think users will appreciate. 

Apparently CMake has built-in support for creating packages on Mac which
is useful.

Garth

> Johan
> 
> On Monday August 9 2010 06:44:28 noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > revno: 4910
> > committer: Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>
> > branch nick: dolfin
> > timestamp: Mon 2010-08-09 15:42:19 +0200
> > message:
> >   Add (initial) files for building DOLFIN with CMake.
> > added:
> >   CMakeLists.txt
> >   cmake/
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindArmadillo.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindBoost.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindCGAL.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindLibXml2.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindNumPy.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindPython.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindUFC.cmake
> >   cmake/DOLFINFindZLIB.cmake
> >   cmake/config_tests/
> >   cmake/config_tests/armadillo_config_test_version.cpp
> >   cmake/config_tests/cgal_config_test_version.cpp
> >   dolfin/CMakeLists.txt
> >   dolfin/swig/CMakeLists.txt
> > 
> > 
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