[sldev] Heads up - we're working on CMake

[Mike Monkowski]

Erik Anderson wrote:
> I know that personally before I would 
> release something as opensource I would make sure that I actually had 
> something to provide ( i.e. it actually compiled and did a basic job of 
> what it was trying to do) otherwise there wouldn't be much purpose to 
> throwing the code into the void.  I don't get the impression that this 
> CMake effort is up to this point, although there is (or was) some 
> excitement that this would occur soon.

As the bard said, "Aye, there's the rub."  SL open source compiles on 
VS2003.  I have VS6, VS2005 Express, and I could get VS2008 Express if I 
dared.  I, too, am used to having open source actually compile.  It only 
compiles on the one I (and I imagine many other developers) don't have.

You say "patch or leave."  I would love to patch.  I can't even compile 
without hacking the project files for every new release.  After doing it 
a few times, you just get tired of it.

Yes, I am excited that CMake will make my life easier.  Yes, I am 
excited that Bryan is working on it.  And grateful, too.  But it's just 
ever so tantilizingly out of reach.  Frustration.  Yep, that's what I'd 
call it.

Mike