[geos-devel] RFC7 - Use CMake as build system for GEOS

[Sandro Santilli]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 12:38:50PM -0400, Daniel Baston wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've posted an RFC to switch to CMake as the exclusive build system for
> GEOS. Some reasoning is in the RFC itself, but it boils down to wasted
> developer and machine effort supporting the combination of autotools,
> CMake, and NMake.
> 
> https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/wiki/RFC7
> 
> Thoughts from the PSC?

One of the reasons why I still prefer autotools is its ability
to build tester scripts which work before install (via libtool).
Does cmake allow for that ?

--strk;