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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:01:09PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:43:07AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> >> >> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 15:06 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote:
>> >> >> > On 8/20/10 3:02 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
>> >> >> > > Should we remove the Scons build system to force testing of the new
>> >> >> > > CMake build system?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > It'd get me to try it.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> For this reason, I say remove it. It's the best way to get people
>> >> >> testing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Agree. I'll remove it and hope Johannes does not object
>> >> > terribly. After all, he's the one who got us started on CMake.
>> >>
>> >> What about backwards compatibility?
>> >
>> > I'm not sure build system is a part of being backwards compatible.
>> > The packages (and soon Dorsal) will still work as usual.
>> >
>> >> Can't we just add a deprecation
>> >> warning and remove it after the next release?
>> >>
>> >> And it will surely break the buildbots.
>> >
>> > That's good as it will help us improve the build system. :-)
>>
>> Ok then. I will move to CMake on the buildbots.
>
> Thanks.

While we are at it, what about looking into CTest?

  http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Testing_With_CTest

Johannes