[CMake] open source project for CMake ports?

[Bill Hoffman]

Philip Lowman wrote:

> 
> For the first cut I think starting out with keeping the CMakified 
> sources in the project would be fine.  Many people are never going to 
> want anything more complicated than this and we know that this will at 
> least work for now.
> 
> CMake can already untar with -E mode.  Adding download support wouldn't 
> be too bad.  Not sure how you would handle patching though.  A nicer 
> solution than above would be storing the original tarball + patch in the 
> CM of your project and then having CMake untar + apply it at configure 
> time.  Then you could optionally add download support on top of that for 
> anyone that wants the ability of their project to properly to build to 
> depend on some server out there in the cloud (not me).
> 

In CVS CMake the file command can download files already (file 
DOWNLOAD).  We are working on some projects that will need to do things 
like this at Kitware.  There is also a bug here:

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8471

It somewhat relates to this issue.

-Bill