Re: Proposal for Gnome Goal (was Re: Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products)

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 10:49 +0200, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
> On 05/10/16 15:39, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > So while I'm not tied to autotools, I would hate to see if every
> > modules maintainer chooses his/her own build system of choice. This
> > makes it really cumbersome as downstream/integrator.
>
> Maybe it would make sense to introduce an official Gnome Goal that 
> encourages every module maintainer to switch over to
> meson.

        Hi,
I didn't mention it earlier, but I didn't pick CMake out of blue. I've
got inspired by the projects the evolution core products depend on.

Some time ago, I touched WebKitGTK+, which uses CMake. Very recently I
helped to upstream libical-glib GNOME hosted project to libical
upstream, which also uses CMake and as I spent some time learning it
during the libical-glib work it was just a natural choice for me. I did
not want to spend more time on learning yet another build system.

No doubt, the CMake isn't perfect (I miss real post-install
steps/commands there, like to recompile gsettings schemas and icon
caches, for which I have workarounds there), but (otherwise) it works
pretty fine for me.
        Bye,
        Milan