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General discussions / Why was CMake abandoned?

« on: May 15, 2008, 11:56:59 pm »

I was wondering why CMake was abandoned as a build system? Simply because no one was using it?

Yep, I decided to no longer maintain it uselessly.

I find the current Makefile system lacking, particularly in that the paths are hard coded and it can't be installed to a user specified directory

Makefiles can be improved for more flexibility, that's not a problem. I'm just not an expert in writting makefiles, so they may not be perfect

Ok, thanks Laurent. Right now I'm just exploring the options among graphics libraries for simple free game development (along the lines of game-a-day simple and fun games). If I end up using SFML much, I may expand the flexibility of the makefiles.

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General discussions / Why was CMake abandoned?

« on: May 08, 2008, 07:54:13 pm »

I was wondering why CMake was abandoned as a build system? Simply because no one was using it?

I find the current Makefile system lacking, particularly in that the paths are hard coded and it can't be installed to a user specified directory. I worked around this by installing it by hand (copying the .so files and the include directory manually).

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General discussions / Update SDL vs SFML benchmark to work w/ newer SFML builds

« on: May 07, 2008, 09:38:17 pm »

I have updated Laurent's benchmark to work with newer SFML builds. This one was made to work with and tested against SFML svn rev 651 (2008-05-03 15:05:43 -0700). I have here a patch against Laurent's ZIP file and a source tarball of my own. I added a Makefile for Linux (builds into a "bin/" subdirectory) and fixed the name of an SDL include file that had incorrect case (but worked on case-insensitive filesystems).

Patch (including bzr merge directive and bundle):
http://gibibit.com/upload/bench-sdl-sfml-update-20080507.patch

Source tarball:
http://gibibit.com/upload/bench-sdl-sfml-update-20080507.tar.bz2

Bazaar VCS (bzr) repository tarball:
http://gibibit.com/upload/bench-sdl-sfml-repo.tar.bz2

-Colin