[NeXus-committee] why cmake for building the manual?

[Pete Jemian]

Also, since there is a GitHub issue, it's probably best to place the 
*known* reasons for the switch to cmake and discussion on that issue 
rather than this email thread.  (Email was sent to call attention to the 
new GitHub issue.)

https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/391

Pete


On 2/26/2015 8:39 AM, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> Ok - next try ;)
> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 08:36 -0600, Pete Jemian wrote:
>> The old build system worked for me on Windows.
>
> :D
> Maybe the intention was to have a single build system for all sources?
>
>>
>> On 2/26/2015 8:35 AM, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
>>> I think the general reason why people want to use cmake is that it also
>>> works on Windows ;).
>>> Although I am not sure if this was the particular reason why we wanted
>>> to build the documentation with cmake.
>>>
>>> Eugen
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 18:18 -0600, Pete Jemian wrote:
>>>> slight rant here:
>>>>
>>>> What, again, was our motivation for using cmake to build the manual?
>>>> Let's go back to the Makefile system.  It was not broken.
>>>>
>>>> see https://github.com/nexusformat/definitions/issues/391
>>>>
>>>> Pete
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