<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Bill,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> 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!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> Andrew</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Bill Hoffman <<a href="mailto:bill.hoffman@kitware.com" target="_blank">bill.hoffman@kitware.com</a>><br>To: "Alan W. Irwin" <<a href="mailto:Alan.W.Irwin1234@gmail.com" target="_blank">Alan.W.Irwin1234@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: CMake Mailinglist <<a href="mailto:cmake@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake@cmake.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:cmake-developers@cmake.org" target="_blank">cmake-developers@cmake.org</a><br>Bcc: <br>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:36:56 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [CMake] Happy Birthday CMake!<br>
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<div class="m_-2593965487304853954moz-cite-prefix">On 9/2/2018 6:54 PM, Alan W. Irwin
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And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the
first place!
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Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of
CMake
<br>
that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this
software
<br>
since its inception? For example, I am pretty sure you have
stated before that it
<br>
did not start out as a C++ project. If so, when did it switch to
C++?
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I did look at <a class="m_-2593965487304853954moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake" target="_blank"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake></a>,
but the history
<br>
paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes
made along
<br>
the way in the development of CMake.
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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. <br>
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Should be some history these talks:<br>
<a class="m_-2593965487304853954moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ut9o4OdSC0&feature=youtube_gdata</a><br>
<a class="m_-2593965487304853954moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjtN8NGtl4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqjtN8NGtl4</a><br>
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I don't think there is anything written.<br>
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-Bill<br>
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