[CMake] cmake 2.4.8 RC 4

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Sun Dec 23 09:43:25 EST 2007


Bill Hoffman wrote:

> I am still not sold on this idea, that you have to run the GUI once. 
> CMake by nature and history (did not even have one on the mac), did not 
> require running anything after installation.    TextMate is an editor, 
> people will run it after they install it.  With cmake, people may want 
> to run ccmake or just cmake without ever touching the GUI.  They may 
> never ever run the GUI, and still expect stuff to work. I don't think a 
> functioning command line can depend on the GUI running at least once. I 
> still don't see the reason for the strong resistance to using an 
> installer program.  Many Apple products including Xcode use one.
> 
Having slept on this...

I don't see a problem with providing a drop and drag installation as 
well as the installer version for 2.6.  We already have a tar file that 
can go anywhere.  Of course this won't happen until 2.6.

-Bill


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