[CMake] Interresting dependency problem

[Alan W. Irwin]

Andreas, you should calm down.  Nobody is forcing you to use pkg-config.
However, your various negative generalizations do not convince me since
pkg-config has been great for PLplot and many other Linux packages, and it
it appears it is going to be completely straightforward (thanks to cmake) to
extend its use to windows platforms without MSYS for the PLplot case. PLplot
is is no way unique in the way it configures its *.pc files with cmake so it
should be easy to extend the idea to other packages, and this will be good
news for all the pkg-config dependent Linux packages which are being ported
to windows right now using CMake.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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