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[Philip-Scott]

Yeah, i agree that the deps/discount files is messy. I'm no expert with CMake but i'll see what i can do about it :)
The config.vala appears on the rest of the elementary projects though, so maybe that works as intended (?)

[demonpig]

I think this has been solved via the recent merge of the .gitignore list.

Simply:

mkdir build && cd build

cmake ..

make

[Philip-Scott]

Mmm not really, It's still adding files on deps/discount. The expected behaviour is that everything gets added inside of build. But it was a good middle step :)

[demonpig]

I am working on configuring CMake to download discount directly from the source. The version of discount being downloaded will not change. So version 2.2.0 will be downloaded. Once the download finished, CMake will then compile discount from there.

Right now I have it working on my machine but am going to test a build on Loki VM after work.

[demonpig]

@Philip-Scott Do you think its wise to have CMake download discount from Github or should CMake use git-submodules? I am conflicted between both options. I am not too familiar with git-submodules but I can learn more about them.

[Philip-Scott]

If i understand submodules correctly, i think using them might be safer since i could at least make sure that the release is working properly with the module i'm targeting instead of having it download automatically (and potentially breaking)

[demonpig]

OK. I am going to explore using that instead of downloading. I was having second thoughts about downloading the library as there was no sha256 checksum provided with the download. People would have to trust that the library was not modified.