Re: Using vala in GNOME

[Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>]

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:07 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
[..]

> > Plus, CMake is getting more mature and stable and it already supports
> > VisualStudio and XCode project files conversion, lack of proper
> > extensibility being its only downside at the moment.
>
> Lack of extensibility, and use of another arcane custom made programming
> language (if we can call it that) for everything.
>
> No, CMake is not an answer.  It is not significantly better than
> autotools to justify a switch to it IMHO.

CMake *is* considerably better. Xcode/VisualStudio are killer features which 
alone would make a switch worth it.

Can we please start to organize ourselves and try to move forward with 
switching to another build system?

Proposal:
- Decide features we need to do a migrate
- Create a table of proposed build systems x features
- Check the KDE build system migration and see what we can learn[1]
- An obvious option will eventually appear
- Start migrate some modules

[1]: Tim has some notes on this: 
http://blogs.gnome.org/timj/2008/06/02/02062008-linuxtag-2008/

Johan