CMT

Overview

• Becoming an ATLAS standard (slowly)
• CMT is single C++ program which uses a requirements file in the src/cmt directory of each package to build and run a Makefile.
• The Makefile is constructed from a number of fragments supplied with the CMT package.
• CMT interworks with CVS (but doesnt require it).

Features

• The requirements file can specify the desired outputs: binary applications, libraries or other documents.
• You can set global options for the package and for each output.
• Packages can "use" other packages. In this way they also inherit all their options (but can override them). Global options for all packages can be set this way.
• All packages get version numbers. You can build a distribution by useing the latest versions of all packages (eg in a separate build package) and doing cmt broadcast make.

Comments

• CMT has a preferred directory structure which is not the ATLAS one, but it can be customised to be so.
• Currently missing equivalent to make install
• Support for generation of code (eg by moc) would need to be added as a new document or language type.
• Feedback from ATLAS evaluations seems (weakly?) favourable.