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

On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 12:58 +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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
> 

Might as well.

Garth


> Johannes