[Qgis-developer] CMake for building QGIS?

[Martin Dobias]

Hi devs,

these days I'm back in QGIS development and I'd like to get
Lib_Refactoring-branch back to sync with SVN head so after releasing
0.8 it could be merged immediately as it has many improvements in
architecture and now it's hard to maintain it separately.

Some time ago I've read about CMake build system and that KDE
developers have switched from autotools to it for KDE4. I've tried it
a bit and it looks very promising. This is a good reading for those
who don't know anything about it:
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/
[2] http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6700

On page [1] you can find pros and cons of this system and advantages
that developers of Scribus project see in it. It should suit our needs
well as it has good support for different platforms and also it's
really easy to use in comparison with autotools. I've already managed
to compile with it QGIS core library on linux.

What are your opinions about such switch for the next version of QGIS?
I could try to prepare the build system in the refactoring branch to
see if it works well.

Martin