[petsc-dev] CMake proof of concept

[Jed Brown]

On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:10:36 -0500, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
>    Likely we need a subdirectory somewhere to put all the make makers. I would like a subdirectory of bin/maint; likely Matt wants a subdirectory of config

Is this really important?  It doesn't seem that messy at this point and
I don't see the advantage of deep hierarchies, /usr/bin has several
thousand executables, but it doesn't bother me.  I don't have a problem
with the current setup except that I don't think builder.py should be in
config.

Also note that iphonebuilder.py might not be strictly necessary:

  http://sites.google.com/site/michaelsafyan/coding/resources/how-to-guides/cross-compile-for-the-iphone/how-to-cross-compile-for-the-iphone-using-cmake

I don't know how this will all shake out, but I don't imagine there will
ever be a lot of these scripts purely for maintenance and support
reasons.  For instance, I could imagine only having a single builder.py
to just build everything without any external dependencies and CMake for
IDE integration.

Jed