[CMake] open source project for CMake ports?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 16 February 2009, Philip Lowman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luigi suggested a kind of CMake ports system in a recent thread here on the
> CMake mailing list.  This would presumably be a system whereby popular 3rd
> party dependencies which have not yet CMakeified their source trees could
> be CM'd and baselined in one place and ultimately downloaded for easy
> incorporation into CMake projects (especially with a goal towards
> MSVC/MinGW portability).  VTK seems to be doing this internally for several
> of it's dependencies and the OSG project seems interested in doing the same
> for similar reasons but would prefer not to duplicate a bunch of work. 

I think also the KDE-on-Windows developer cmakeified a few projects.

> Since many of the dependencies overlap, is there general interest in this
> kind of a thing from the VTK perspective or from others?
>
> The goal would be to create an open-source project (hosted probably at a
> neutral site like SF.net or Google Code) where the ports could be stored,
> baselined, etc. and then released so that anyone could download whichever
> are needed and incorporate them into their own projects?  Export/Install

You suggest to keep a whole copy of these projects there, not only the build 
files, right ?
A problem is how to keep this current, i.e. they will more or less quickly 
become out-of-date (happened to me with python).

Alex