On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
On 11.12.2012 17:13, Jürgen Hunold wrote:> Hi,
On Tuesday, 11. December 2012 13:33:41 Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
2012/12/11 Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Uhm, so why is CMake now a requirement, and what are the plans for lifting said requirement?
I wrote the script in CMake, because that way it was easiest for me. If someone implements the same functionality in Python, we can replace the script.
Steven Watanabe has already mailed a patch to this standalon in the existing Boost.Build system. I just can't find the mail at the moment and the patch does not apply any more. Maybe Volodya can take a look at it?
FWIW, I am OK with requiring Python for building Boost. In particular, because I will be able to say 'look, we require Python already' when discussing Boost.Build/Python in future.
But I'd be happy to help with pure Boost.Build solution as well - but I can't find email either.
If I may, I'd like CMake support to become available eventually, and I use it for my projects as well. So I don't have a problem if it's required. OTOH, I don't use python (at least, directly).