[Telux] Next Meeting: "CMake" on 25-October-2009

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all!

The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host a talk by Constantine Shulyupin ( 
http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/ ) about "CMake - the Nifty Build and 
Configuration System" - on 25-October-2009.

The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber Maths&CS 
building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your calendars. For more information can 
be found at:

* http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/

* http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_25_October_2009

With any other problems, feel free to contact me:

http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/

Hopefully Constantine will be able to give a re-run of this presentation on 
Haifux and other possible venues.

Abstract:
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You can see what we have so far here:

http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/CMake/

We are also planning to re-use some CMake presentations and material that we 
found online. In any case, here's an abstract:

{{{{{{{{{{{
    CMake - cross platform make.
    - configure the software build process and generate makefiles (or IDE 
    project files) automatically on many systems.
    - Advantages over GNU Autotools.
        - Smaller archive files and downloads (no huge "configure", 
        "configure.in"/"configure.ac", Makefile.am, Makefile.in, etc.)
        - Faster configurations (using the CMake command).
            - no excessive forking and running processes in CMake.
        - make/build runs faster (due to no "libtool" commands).
        - much easier to maintain and tends to break less than Autoconf's
        m4 macros generating /bin/sh code, with many other tools in between.
        Show:
            - http://www.seul.org/docs/autotut/figure1.png
        - Better Microsoft Windows support:
            - can prepare Windows NSIS packages out-of-the-box.
        - Its licence is mod-BSDL instead of Autotools' GPL.
}}}}}}}}}}

CMake may still have some disadvantages over GNU Autotools (a.k.a: GNU 
Autohell), but we like it.

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Next on our agenda is starting the "Welcome-to-FOSS" series:

http://welcome.foss.org.il/2009/

We're looking for volunteer presenters and backup presenters. Currently our 
agenda is here:

http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Welcome_to_FOSS_-_2009

We are always looking for presentations on interesting topics. If you have an 
interesting idea for a talk, feel free to contact us and we'll co-ordinate a 
date.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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