[CMake] Happy Birthday CMake!

[Bill Lorensen]

Pcmaker, Ken Martin wrote it.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 3:26 PM Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>    In the pre-Cmake days I remember building VTK on Windows with a program
> that configured VTK for the build. Do you remember what it was called? This
> was back around 2000!
>
> Regards
>    Andrew
>
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>
>> To: "Alan W. Irwin" <Alan.W.Irwin1234 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: CMake Mailinglist <cmake at cmake.org>, cmake-developers at cmake.org
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:36:56 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [CMake] Happy Birthday CMake!
>>
>> On 9/2/2018 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>
>>
>> And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the first
>> place!
>>
>> Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of CMake
>> that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this software
>> since its inception?  For example, I am pretty sure you have stated
>> before that it
>> did not start out as a C++ project.  If so, when did it switch to C++?
>> I did look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>, but the history
>> paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes made along
>> the way in the development of CMake.
>>
>> CMake has always been in C++.   The idea was that all that would be
>> required would be a C++ compiler.  With that, you could build CMake.  Since
>> CMake was designed to build C++ projects, it was assumed that the user
>> would at least have a C++ compiler.
>>
>> Should be some history these talks:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjtN8NGtl4
>>
>> I don't think there is anything written.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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