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[cmake-developers] Happy Birthday CMake!
Bill Hoffman
2018-08-31 18:33:32 UTC
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Thanks to everyone that has contributed or used CMake!

-Bill
Taylor Holberton
2018-08-31 18:45:45 UTC
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Looked at the log in reverse and found commit 077c31484

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/tree/077c31484e216a72c73370c05fcf970ce5269085

Might be fun to build this again.
Post by Bill Hoffman
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Thanks to everyone that has contributed or used CMake!
-Bill
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Alan W. Irwin
2018-09-02 22:54:05 UTC
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Post by Bill Hoffman
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Thanks to everyone that has contributed or used CMake!
And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the first place!

Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of CMake
that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this software
since its inception? For example, I am pretty sure you have stated before that it
did not start out as a C++ project. If so, when did it switch to C++?
I did look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>, but the history
paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes made along
the way in the development of CMake.

Alan
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Bill Hoffman
2018-09-10 17:36:56 UTC
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Post by Alan W. Irwin
And thanks to you for coming up with such a useful tool in the first place!
Can you recommend a site that gives a (fairly) short history of CMake
that at least lists the most fundamental changes made to this software
since its inception?  For example, I am pretty sure you have stated
before that it
did not start out as a C++ project.  If so, when did it switch to C++?
I did look at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmake>, but the history
paragraph there includes nothing about the fundamental changes made along
the way in the development of CMake.
CMake has always been in C++.   The idea was that all that would be
required would be a C++ compiler.  With that, you could build CMake. 
Since CMake was designed to build C++ projects, it was assumed that the
user would at least have a C++ compiler.

Should be some history these talks:



I don't think there is anything written.

-Bill

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