Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Reconsider build system change?

From: Pieter Wuille <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 12:44:17 +0200

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 07:29:04AM +0000, John Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Why again did we choose for autotools as future build system instead of
> cmake?

I have no preference for any particular project build system. If a system
* is easy enough to set up (included in standard repositories, eg.)
* allows building of the bitcoin codebase on several linux distro's
* does cross-compilation to windows
* supports osx
* is easy to maintain
* it is not too hard to adapt other GUI's to use it (bitcoin-qt,
  maybe others as well, i hear about a cocoabitcoin?)
* gets implemented and tested to support all of the above
.. i have no problem with choosing that system for future versions.

-- 
Pieter