Re: [ros-dev] 1296 [dreimer] Get the cmake path from a system variable called _R

[Jan Blomqvist Kinander]

For all not-so-techie guys who want to start building and possibly develop ReactOS and for
many testers it's important to keep it super-simple, RosBE is just so simple anyone
can get started and it's not threatning at all. This is really important in my
opinion. 

I also follow the Contiki OS, they also have a development suite, but it is a VMware
Player image of the size of more then 2GB To include Ubuntu + build tools and utilities,
that is heavy and mega crippled.

I also insist on one RosBE including all needed portions of the building environment. I
also would like to see some util for translators to make that easy.

I would like something like RosTE too, a one installation package including a Test
Environment with VM automatic iso downloader, debug-tools and such.

ReactOS is supposed to be easy, keep it that way.

/Jaix Bly
Jan Blomqvist Kinander

"ReactOS Development List" <ros-dev(a)reactos.org> wrote on Fri, June 3rd,
2011, 9:42 AM:
>   Zachary Gorden wrote:
> >   I object highly to the idea of bundling cmake
> > with the BE.  Most
> >  platforms already have binaries built of cmake, either by the distro or
> >  for Windows, the people who make cmake provide an installer. 
>  
>  I don't see the point here, you could say exactly the same about every 
>  tool we bundle.
>  
>  
> >   We provide the compilers and linkers and we
> > provided rbuildbecause it was our own
> >  thing, but cmake is not and has its own environment. 
>  
>  There are also easily installable third-party MinGW environments, but 
>  this is not the point.
>  RosBE started as a project to bundle all build tools (always including 
>  GNU Make by the way), even when we didn't need our own specially patched 
>  versions yet. This is precisely why ReactOS is one of the easiest 
>  operating systems to compile and we can have 5-minute tutorials like 
>  this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnt7s2zEZFo
>  
>  On top of this, it allows us to have comparable builds between all 
>  developers, because we can be sure that they use the very same tools.
>  I don't want to spend nights of debugging if problems are suddenly 
>  caused by using different CMake versions.
>  
>  I'm very reluctant to drop these fundamental ideas behind RosBE. They 
>  have certainly saved every ReactOS developer much time.
>  
>  
>  - Colin
>  
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