[sldev] "easybuild" branch, courtesy Kitware

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On Friday 27 March 2009 05:59:37 pm Rob Lanphier wrote:
>
> Work has commenced now.  Kitware convinced us that an important first
> step is to move develop.py out of the way, and just have developers
> invoke CMake in order to start a build.
>

YES!!!!

I wrote and maintain a few ebuilds. They all use a cmake macro provided by 
portage cmake eclass. Out of curiosity, I tried doing a manual build using 
develop.py and it failed miserly. I have read and grok develop.py to make sure 
I was passing the right stuff to cmake. Dumping develope.py and using cmake 
configure/build would make the life of a linux distro packager a lot easier. 
Now to see if viewer_masifest.py can be replace by a simple cmake install. It 
took me the better part of a week to shoehorn viwer_manifest.py into an 
ebuild.

--Techwolf Lupindo